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Our Guide To Super Bowl LV

After an NFL season unlike any other, the Super Bowl is finally here. And, true to form for Pandemic Sports™, it’s given us a surprisingly unsurprising matchup between Patrick Mahomes’s Kansas City Chiefs and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We’ll be breaking the game down using our Elo ratings, which track how well each team […]

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There’s More Than One Way To Build A Super Bowl Team

The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have plenty of things in common in Super Bowl LV, starting with a pair of all-time QBs in Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady. But in many other ways, the teams’ paths to the brink of a championship could not be more different. Because of that, whoever […]

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Our Guide To The NFL’s Conference Championships

The NFL’s divisional round is complete, and we’re looking forward to a really talented and interesting final four — one that features the defending champs, a feel-good upstart and two of the greatest QBs of all time playing for teams that feel both familiar and unfamiliar. For each matchup, we’ll be breaking things down using […]

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Our Guide To The NFL’s Divisional Round

With one weekend of the 2020-21 NFL playoffs in the books, we’re excited to see what kind of football treats the divisional round will bring. For each matchup, we’re breaking things down using our Elo ratings — which track how well each team is currently playing, with adjustments for the quality of each starting quarterback […]

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