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  • StatsInTheWild NFL rankings as of November 15, 2012 at 12:34pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Points Diff Houston 1 ↑1 8-1 13-3 1 1 12 +107 Chicago 2 ↓1 7-2 11-5 3 2 6 +109 Green Bay 3 ↑1 6-3 10-6 6 4 5 +52 New England 4…

  • Week 10 performances:   Rank Player Team RIPPEN QB_Rating 1 Alex Smith SF 55.57 143.8 2 Russell Wilson SEA 39.41 131.0 3 Josh Freeman TB 37.97 137.5 4 Drew Brees NO 31.04 113.8 5 Sam Bradford STL 30.07 104.1 6 Peyton Manning DEN 29.20 103.1 7 Joe Flacco BAL 27.49 115.8 8 Christian Ponder MIN…

  • I suppose this counts as a visual display of information, right?

  •   Rank Teams records 1 OREGON 10-0 2 KANSAS STATE 10-0 3 ALABAMA 9-1 4 NOTRE DAME 10-0 5 FLORIDA 9-1 6 TEXAS A&M 8-2 7 OKLAHOMA 7-2 8 LSU 8-2 9 STANFORD 8-2 10 GEORGIA 9-1 11 SO CAROLINA 8-2 12 OREGON STATE 7-2 13 OHIO STATE 10-0 14 FLORIDA STATE 9-1 15 USC…

  • Something I just noticed is that the team with the higher rated quarterback based on RIPPEN won every single game in week 9.  QB rating does a great job too, but it missed one game last week.  Ryan was 102.8 and Romo was 109.3, but Ryan’s Falcons won the game.  This is due entirely to…

  • Week 9 was my worst week of the year against the spread and my best week of the year picking winners straight-up. Overall Records for 2012 SU: 90-55-1 (61.99%) ATS: 79-67 (54.11%) (ROI: 5.92%) O/U: 79-63-1 (55.59%) (ROI: 8.99%) Week 10 (6-7-1 SU, 7-7 ATS, 8-6 O/U) Week 9 (11-3 SU, 6-8 ATS, 6-7-1 O/U)…

  • StatsInTheWild NFL rankings as of November 7, 2012 at 12:34pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Points Diff Chicago 1 ↑1 7-1 12-4 3 1 8 +116 Houston 2 ↓1 7-1 12-4 2 3 16 +100 Atlanta 3 ↑2 8-0 13-3 1 2 25 +77 Green Bay 4 ↑2…

  • From this Gawker.com article: Okay, clearly the guy [Silver] is good with numbers, but all the praise seems kind of overboard. Well, look, you can see his record for yourself: 50 for 50. But it’s true, Silver’s getting a lot of credit for calling Obama’s victory when basically any statistician or political scientist who’s been…

  • But all these stats triumphalists have it wrong. Nate Silver didn’t nail it; the pollsters did. The vaunted Silver “picks”—the ones that scored a perfect record on Election Day—were derived from averaged state-wide data. According to the final tallies from FiveThirtyEight, Obama led by 1.3 points in Virginia, 3.6 in Ohio, 3.6 in Nevada, and…

  •   65.9% reporting and Obama with a 2.1% lead.