“Cracking The Code!”- Codes’ Storylines of The Week
Tales of the Second Half: We saw a few teams jump to a great start like the Browns, Buccaneers, Cowboys, Raiders, ect. now some of them have a few losses in a row or a few losses in a 3 week span, but this a 17 game race… not a 8 game race. Then on the other side we have a team like the Falcons who started real slow, starting to make a comeback for the division. So long story short, you have to stay locked in all 17 games… no lead is comfortable. So will we see some of the early top teams choke the lead to the late bloomers or will they be able to stop the bleeding?
Keep Nef and Que away: Nef vs Que is a unique rivalry. The games are usually close, there’s a lot of trash talk, but people are tired of it. It’s the same argument… every single day. If it was a few times a season it might be okay to deal with, but please JT… PLEASE keep them away from each other next cycle. I don’t know if we can stand another cycle of the same recycled argument every week
Codes’ Unknown Heroes of the Week
Devin Singletary (31 rushes, 134 yards, 1 TD): I understand Dalvin is suspended, but there is NO EXCUSE as to why Devin is 1. Getting touches in season 4… and 2. GETTING 31 RUSHES. There has to be a better RB in free agency, but hey what do I know he went out there and put up a career stat line.
C.J. Hicks (3 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 FF): Apparently this guy was a top pick in the draft, but before this game he only had 1 tackle, 0 sacks, and 0 FF… I don’t have to explain much. Who is this guy and where did he come from?
What is this?
Nef’s Power Rankings is a Power Rankings that will be provided weekly for PML members to enjoy! It’s rankings that don’t necessarily go off popular opinion or past results. It’s a fresh new look into power rankings that completely takes the popularity contest and bias out of it!
What is our goal?
Our goal is to provide a better understanding on who is really performing the best within a specific season using nothing but stats!
Who is involved?
Nefarious- Data gathering and inputing weekly.
Z- Weekly summary on the biggest surprises week to week to provide some substance to the Power Rankings and graphic itself.
CB- Weekly graphic to add something pretty to look at!
What stats are involved? Also what matters most?
Our Power Rankings are based into multiple scores. First you have your Record Score which gives you a certain amount of points every week. Making wins and loses weigh heavily week to week.Then you have your Weekly Score which gathers multiple stats based on that week to give you an overall score and performance on a week to week basis. Next you have Streak which takes your recent winning or losing streak to also adjust your ranking week to week. Then you have Team Overall that plays a very small factor when deciding where teams fall weekly. Finally we have our Total Score which is a combination of average Weekly Score, Record Score, Streak and Team Overall.
All of these things matter and factor into the final result but some matter more than others. Based on formulas used in this spreadsheet i can tell you roughly what effects the rankings mostly week to week and what effects them the least.
(From most to least)
Record Score– This is simple and self explanatory. The more you win the higher your score is. Wins and loses both weigh evenly. Wins effect it in a positive manner and loses effect it in a negative manner. For ties both team get half of what a win would get them.
Weekly Score– Recent weekly scores matter the most after record score. Older weeks (combined in 2’s) will effect the Total Score a little less and less as the season goes on. Weekly Scores does have multiple factors in it itself so I’ll break it down in most important to least.
– Record Differential in a win
– Point Differential
– Record Differential in a loss
– Ranking Differential in a win/loss (based on previous weeks total rankings)
– Team Overall Differential in a win/loss (based on team overall going into that weeks game)
– Points For/Points Against (small amount positive points for high scoring teams, and small amount subtracted for bad defenses)
Streak- With every win streak or losing streak you’ll receive a small hit or bump to your Total Score. So even if you lose one after having a big win streak you won’t punished by it in your total score. But the longer the streak is the more effect it can have on your Total Score and ranking.
Team Overall– Team Overall should matter. Especially when building a team is half of the battle. Though it matters it will not have a significant effect on our Power Rankings.
Thats a quick summary of what goes into it week to week. Please DM me (Nefarious) if you have any other questions.
Can I join?
Yes, we appreciate any help we can get. The more authors the better!
