After an upside-down wild card round that produced four road winners, sanity was restored for the higher-seeded teams during divisional weekend. It wasn’t always easy — each game was decided by a touchdown or less — and some of the finishes were flat–out unbelievable. But after the dust settled, the Panthers, Broncos, Patriots and Cardinals […]
After an upside-down wild card round that produced four road winners, sanity was restored for the higher-seeded teams during divisional weekend. It wasn’t always easy — each game was decided by a touchdown or less — and some of the finishes were flat–out unbelievable. But after the dust settled, the Panthers, Broncos, Patriots and Cardinals […]
For all the effort that’s gone into developing sophisticated statistical measurements of football, it remains a highly unpredictable sport. As my buddy Chase Stuart once wrote about the NFL, “we don’t know anything and we never will.” And yet, while we may not know anything for certain, we’ve learned enough that from week to week, […]
For all the effort that’s gone into developing sophisticated statistical measurements of football, it remains a highly unpredictable sport. As my buddy Chase Stuart once wrote about the NFL, “we don’t know anything and we never will.” And yet, while we may not know anything for certain, we’ve learned enough that from week to week, […]
Last year, we went into the playoffs with a pretty good idea of the Super Bowl favorites. This year, not so much. According to our Elo ratings, no team entered the 2015-16 postseason with better than a 20 percent shot at the Lombardi Trophy. (As a point of historical comparison, Elo’s No. 1 regular-season team […]
