Slaga's Power Rankings - Week 10

[slaga]

Rank (Last Week) Week 10 Combined Winning %

1 (2) Indiannapolis Colts 75.0%

2 (1) New Orleans Saints 75.0%

3 (6) Cinncinnati Bengals 67.8%

4 (3) Minnesota Vikings 65.9%

5 (8) Arizona Cardinals 62.0%

6 (5) Pittsburgh Steelers 62.0%

7 (4) Denver Broncos 59.3%

8 (11) San Diego Chargers 58.7%

9 (9) New England Patriots 57.7%

10 (7) Dallas Cowboys 56.7%

11 (10) Atlanta Falcons 55.2%

12 (12) Houston Texans 53.9%

13 (14) Baltimore Ravens 53.6%

14 (18) Green Bay Packers 52.6%

15 (13) Philadelphia Eagles 51.6%

16 (20) Jacksonville Jaguars 51.2%

17 (15) New York Giants 50.9%

18 (21) San Franciso 49ers 50.1%

19 (17) Miami Dolphins 49.1%

20 (24) Carolina Panthers 46.1%

21 (19) New York Jets 46.1%

22 (16) Chicago Bears 45.8%

23 (22) Seattle Seahawks 43.3%

24 (25) Tennessee Titans 42.7%

25 (23) Buffalo Bills 39.0%

26 (31) Washington Redskins 35.3%

27 (26) Oakland Raiders 34.9%

28 (30) Kansas City Chiefs 33.9%

29 (27) Cleveland Browns 33.4%

30 (29) St. Louis Rams 32.1%

31 (28) Detroit Lions 31.8%

32 (32) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27.4%

1 (2) AFC South 55.7%

2 (1) AFC North 54.2%

3 (3) NFC South 50.9%

4 (5) NFC North 49.0%

5 (6) NFC East 48.6%

6 (4) AFC East 48.0%

7 (8) NFC West 46.9%

8 (7) AFC West 46.7%

Toughest schedule to date:

Cleveland Browns 60.5%

Miami Dolphins 58.0%

Tennessee Titans 58.0%

Detroit Lions 58.0%

St. Louis Rams 58.0%

Easiest Schedule to Date:

Minnesota Vikings 35.8%

Washington Redskins 37.0%

New Orleans Saints 39.5%

Dallas Cowboys 44.4%

Jacksonville Jaguars 44.4%

Toughest Remaining Schedule:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 61.9%

Washington Redskins 61.9%

New York Giants 58.7%

Carolina Panthers 58.7%

Kansas City Chiefs 55.6%

Easiest Remaining Schedule:

Arizona Cardinals 36.5%

Pittsburgh Steelers 38.1%

Cinncinnati Bengals 38.1%

New Orleans Saints 41.3%

San Franciso 49ers 41.3%

[slaga]

This is how each team has done to date:

Team Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

Dallas Cowboys 16 19 14 19 16 14 10 9 7 10

New York Giants 13 3 4 5 6 7 12 16 15 17

Philadelphia Eagles 14 20 15 15 14 18 16 11 13 15

Washington Redskins 28 17 25 22 26 29 30 31 31 26

Chicago Bears 29 18 13 10 9 12 17 17 16 22

Detroit Lions 24 26 18 21 24 27 26 28 28 31

Green Bay Packers 5 15 12 12 13 11 11 12 18 14

Minnesota Vikings 6 7 3 2 4 4 5 4 3 4

New Orleans Saints 7 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

Atlanta Falcons 11 9 16 13 7 5 8 8 10 11

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 32 32 28 31 32 32 32 32 32 32

Carolina Panthers 30 29 29 30 25 25 27 24 24 20

Seattle Seahawks 2 13 21 23 19 22 23 22 22 23

St. Louis Rams 20 31 32 32 31 31 31 30 29 30

San Franciso 49ers 8 2 10 9 10 10 15 18 21 18

Arizona Cardinals 21 16 17 17 12 8 4 7 8 5

Miami Dolphins 25 24 27 24 18 20 21 19 17 19

New England Patriots 9 11 8 7 8 9 9 10 9 9

New York Jets 1 1 2 6 11 15 14 20 19 21

Buffalo Bills 19 21 20 25 28 24 22 23 23 25

Baltimore Ravens 12 5 7 11 17 21 20 13 14 13

Pittsburgh Steelers 3 22 24 16 15 13 7 6 5 6

Cinncinnati Bengals 26 12 9 8 5 6 6 5 6 3

Cleveland Browns 22 25 26 27 22 26 25 26 27 29

Tennessee Titans 23 30 31 29 29 30 29 27 25 24

Houston Texans 17 14 22 20 23 17 13 14 12 12

Indiannapolis Colts 4 8 6 3 3 3 3 2 2 1

Jacksonville Jaguars 18 27 19 14 21 16 19 21 20 16

San Diego Chargers 10 10 11 18 20 19 18 15 11 8

Denver Broncos 15 6 5 4 2 2 2 3 4 7

Oakland Raiders 31 23 23 26 27 23 24 25 26 27

Kansas City Chiefs 27 28 30 28 30 28 28 29 30 28

[thespaniard]

The Saints and the Colts have the same percentage. Shouldn't they be tied for first?

[slaga]

I sorted the data by the combined percentage, then the toughest schedule to date, and then the easiest schedule looking forward. The Colts have played a tougher schedule to date so they got the nod in the tie breaker.

I had trouble with the Arizona / Pitt ranking. Their combined % is the same. I stretched the rounding out to 30 decimal places and they are the same yet when sorting the data, Arizona came out on top, even though Pitt had the tougher schedule to date. Even though the numbers are rounded when they are displayed, Excel carries over the decimal quite a ways for each calculation (each team's individual winning percentage, each opponents winnning percentage, adding, dividing, etc.) and then rounds at the end. I can only assume that Arizona's actual combined % is slightly better than Pitt's.

Note: At week 10, the Siants have the easiest schedule with all of their opponents, both past and future, averaging a 40.3% winning percentage. As the season progresses, this will begin to hurt their combined percentage a bit, but not as much as an undefeated season will help. It is still up to the Saints to stay at the top.