Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Richardson's NFL rankings Message-ID: <1185@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 10:55:13 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1185 Posted: Wed Oct 31 10:55:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 13:33:12 EST Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 51 This is my second weekly posting of my program's NFL ratings. It did pretty well last week, picking 11 of the 14 winners (all except Denver, Green Bay and the Giants). Something very interesting has happened this week: Buffalo has moved ahead of three teams in the rankings. This doesn't really make sense because Buffalo at 0-9 couldn't be doing any worse than they have, but if you look at the other side of the story, the program is telling us something that is probably very important. It says that with Buffalo's very tough schedule, they haven't really had a good chance to win many games, so based on the games that they've played so far, you can't conclude that they're any worse than 24th because they haven't played enough weak teams. On the other hand, the teams ranked below the Bills have had very easy schedules and have played a lot of weak teams, and lost to most of them, thus proving that they belong at the bottom of the rankings. Things will make more sense after Sunday's game between Cleveland and Buffalo because it will be our first chance to see how the Bills stack up against very weak competition. Last This Week Week TEAM (DIV) GP W L T PCT GOOD BAD RATING 1 1 MIAMI (AE) 9 9 0 0 1.000 8.7 0.0 0.986 5 2 DENVER (AW) 9 8 1 0 0.889 6.5 0.7 0.820 2 3 SAN FRANCISCO (NW) 9 8 1 0 0.889 6.4 0.9 0.806 6 4 NEW ENGLAND (AE) 9 6 3 0 0.667 5.4 0.6 0.766 3 5 LA RAIDERS (AW) 9 7 2 0 0.778 5.0 0.7 0.739 4 6 WASHINGTON (NE) 9 5 4 0 0.556 5.9 1.8 0.727 9 7 ST. LOUIS (NE) 9 6 3 0 0.667 6.3 2.7 0.704 8 8 SEATTLE (AW) 9 7 2 0 0.778 4.6 1.0 0.701 10 9 DALLAS (NE) 9 6 3 0 0.667 5.4 1.9 0.695 7 10 NY JETS (AE) 9 6 3 0 0.667 4.4 1.8 0.646 11 11 CHICAGO (NC) 9 6 3 0 0.667 4.3 1.8 0.639 14 12 NY GIANTS (NE) 9 5 4 0 0.556 4.8 2.9 0.604 12 13 PITTSBURGH (AC) 9 5 4 0 0.556 5.0 3.7 0.570 13 14 KANSAS CITY (AW) 9 5 4 0 0.556 3.4 2.3 0.561 15 15 LA RAMS (NW) 9 5 4 0 0.556 3.5 3.4 0.505 16 16 PHILADELPHIA (NE) 9 4 5 0 0.444 2.7 2.9 0.490 17 17 SAN DIEGO (AW) 9 4 5 0 0.444 1.3 3.1 0.400 18 18 INDIANAPOLIS (AE) 9 3 6 0 0.333 1.6 3.5 0.394 19 19 NEW ORLEANS (NW) 9 4 5 0 0.444 2.3 4.2 0.393 24 20 GREEN BAY (NC) 9 2 7 0 0.222 1.8 5.5 0.294 23 21 CINCINNATI (AC) 9 3 6 0 0.333 0.4 4.3 0.286 20 22 ATLANTA (NW) 9 3 6 0 0.333 1.8 6.3 0.250 22 23 TAMPA BAY (NC) 9 3 6 0 0.333 1.3 5.9 0.244 27 24 BUFFALO (AE) 9 0 9 0 0.000 0.0 5.0 0.221 21 25 DETROIT (NC) 9 3 6 0 0.333 1.3 6.6 0.207 25 26 CLEVELAND (AC) 9 1 8 0 0.111 1.1 6.6 0.194 26 27 MINNESOTA (NC) 9 2 7 0 0.222 0.9 7.2 0.153 28 28 HOUSTON (AC) 9 0 9 0 0.000 0.0 8.9 0.004 -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff