jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (12/24/84)
Here are the Richardson rankings after the wild-card games. I was thinking of counting the playoff games double, but then I thought that if I did that, I'd have to count some of the week 16 games double too because a lot of teams were in do-or-die situations then too. Then I'd have to decide which regular season games were or weren't important, and that's the kind of arbitrary decision I was trying to avoid when I made up this rating system. If you disagree with me, send me mail and I'll show you what it would look like with playoff games counted double. The Giants and Rams are the only ones whose rankings have changed since last week, so I've listed only the top 11. (Pittsburgh is 14th.) Last This WEEK 17 Week Week TEAM (DIV) GP W L T PCT GOOD BAD RATING RESULT 1 1 SAN FRANCISCO (NW) 16 15 1 0 0.938 12.1 1.0 0.847 2 2 DENVER (AW) 16 13 3 0 0.813 12.6 2.1 0.828 3 3 MIAMI (AE) 16 14 2 0 0.875 11.4 1.6 0.807 4 4 SEATTLE (AW) 17 13 4 0 0.765 12.8 2.7 0.796 W Raid 5 5 LA RAIDERS (AW) 17 11 6 0 0.647 10.4 3.3 0.709 L Seat 6 6 WASHINGTON (NE) 16 11 5 0 0.688 9.1 3.4 0.679 7 7 CHICAGO (NC) 16 10 6 0 0.625 8.5 4.8 0.613 11 8 NY GIANTS (NE) 17 10 7 0 0.588 10.0 6.2 0.612 W Rams 9 9 DALLAS (NE) 16 9 7 0 0.563 8.8 5.7 0.597 10 10 ST. LOUIS (NE) 16 9 7 0 0.563 8.7 5.6 0.597 8 11 LA RAMS (NW) 17 10 7 0 0.588 8.4 5.7 0.580 L NYGi -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsrgv!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff