Wednesday, 3 October 2018

NFL Week 5 Power Rankings

The Patriots were back in business in week 4 of the NFL and rise back up to the top of my Elo model's relative team rankings, full list below. This was also helped but the Eagles losing to the moderately rated Titans which also assisted the Chiefs in their rise to now second in the list. The Rams are now also hot on the heels of the Eagles as their impressive start to the season continues.

The relative gaps and transitions can be seen in the graph at the bottom of the post. Some of it can be a bit hard to make out, due to the big clump of teams in the middle. Also, there are only a finite amount of different shades of blue and red the human eye can really, categorically discern (no matter what Dulux try and tell you) when placed next to each other.

The teams have generally closed up, especially if you ignore the Cleveland Browns (look at that gap to them!). This is mainly due to the Patriots and Eagles losing relative ground to the rest of the teams.

The top 6 teams are fairly well separated but then it is very close between the Vikings in 7th down to the Bengals in 14th.

At the bottom of the rankings is the lonely Browns and then the Colts, Texans, Jets and Giants in a group of 4 with the Cardinals desperate to join them. The Raiders downward trend has head a bit of a stay, only because they got to play the Browns at home, but otherwise i am sure they will be down there soon too.
  1. New England Patriots
  2. Kansas City Chiefs
  3. Philadelphia Eagles
  4. Los Angeles Rams
  5. New Orleans Saints
  6. Carolina Panthers
  7. Minnesota Vikings
  8. Tennessee Titans
  9. Pittsburgh Steelers
  10. Baltimore Ravens
  11. Jacksonville Jaguars
  12. Dallas Cowboys
  13. Atlanta Falcons
  14. Cincinnati Bengals
  15. Seattle Seahawks
  16. Los Angeles Chargers
  17. Miami Dolphins
  18. Green Bay Packers
  19. Buffalo Bills
  20. Washington Redskins
  21. Detroit Lions
  22. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  23. Chicago Bears
  24. Denver Broncos
  25. San Francisco 49ers
  26. Oakland Raiders
  27. Arizona Cardinals
  28. New York Giants
  29. New York Jets
  30. Houston Texans
  31. Indianapolis Colts
  32. Cleveland Browns

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