Category: Sports
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SITW NFL Rankings after week 6. (Last weeks NFL rankings) (And check out my NCAA Football Rankings) Rank – After Week 5 Change New England 1 0 Green Bay 2 0 Pittsburgh 3 0 Baltimore 4 0 Atlanta 5 0 NY Jets 6 0 Chicago 7 0 Tampa Bay 8 1 New Orleans 9 -1 NY…
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Rankings as of 10/16/2011. Previous weeks rankings here. Team Rank Change Oklahoma State 1 0 Oklahoma 2 0 Kansas State 3 0 LSU 4 1 Alabama 5 -1 Clemson 6 1 Texas 7 -1 Texas A&M 8 8 South Carolina 9 4 Stanford 10 4 Baylor 11 -3 Arkansas 12 3 Georgia Tech 13 -4…
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I’ve been reading a little bit about the BCS computer rankings lately, and, while I’m a huge fan of ratings systems (I have my own for the NFL), the BCS computer rankings make me cringe. The computer ratings, which account for only one third of the overall rankings, are made up of six seemingly arbitrarily…
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SITW NFL Rankings after week 5. (Last weeks rankings.) No changes in the top 7 this week. New Orleans and Tampa Bay flip flop at 8 and 9. The biggest movers were Oakland and Indianapolis, in opposite directions of course. Oakland is up 5 spots to number 17 after beating Houston and Indianapolis falls 6…
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SITW NFL Rankings after week 4. (Last weeks rankings.) Team Rank – After Week 4 Rank – After Week 3 Change New England 1 1 0 Green Bay 2 2 0 Pittsburgh 3 3 0 Baltimore 4 5 1 Atlanta 5 6 1 NY Jets 6 4 -2 Chicago 7 7 0 Tampa Bay 8…
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How can I reasonably still have Miami ranked above Buffalo? I don’t know. But Buffalo has climbed 10 spots in the SITW rankings this year, so it’s not so crazy. The reason they aren’t higher is because they did only win 4 games last year. That’s pretty bad. They are basically starting from such a…
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Djokovic recently (a few weeks ago at this point) won the US Open and his rise to number 1 has been incredible. The data for that graph in the article was collected from the ATP website using the R package XML (which I learned about from The Log Cabin). In that graph, I was only…
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The ESPN Power Rankings for Week 3 have Houston at number 5; a good reason why I think most sports writers are idiots. The reason for such a high ranking is because Houston sits at 2-0. However, they have only beaten lowly Miami and an Indianapolis team without Peyton Manning; not enough for me to…
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If other sites get to do an Absurdly Premature Playoff Picture, then so do I. Here are my projected playoff seeds after week 1. (You can see my projected playoff teams prior to the start of the season here.) Seed AFC NFC 1 New England Green Bay 2 Baltimore Philadelphia 3 Jacksonville Atlanta 4 San…
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SITW NFL Rankings after week 1. Team Preseason Rank After Week 1 Rank New England 1 1 Green Bay 3 2 New York Jets 5 3 Baltimore 6 4 Pittsburgh 2 5 Atlanta 4 6 Chicago 7 7 Philadelphia 10 8 New Orleans 9 9 Tampa Bay 8 10 New York Giants 11 11 Miami…
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