Thursday, October 31, 2013

Week 8 Football ERA Cumulative Results

Weekly 2013 Cumulative Football ERA Formula results are published below with the usual cautionary disclaimer that these are NOT Power Rankings. To analyze these results, we primarily have to look at how teams change within the Rankings rather than looking at the Rankings as raw stand-alone data. Position is neither the best nor the sole criteria of analyzing the list as much as is observing change in the list (first derivative). In other words, how teams rise and fall from week to week during the long season is more of a primary criteria for evaluating performance.
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Car
16413
Den
15671
GB
14618
KC
14360
SF
13347
SD
12095
Sea
11906
Det
11818
NYJ
11312
NO
11137
Cinn
10442
Hou
10331
Ind
10280
Bal
8607
Buff
8201
Was
7350
Phi
6835
NE
6794
Arz
6512
Oak
6098
Tenn
5973
Atl
5132
Chi
4089
StL
3995
Dall
3907
TB
3797
Mia
3258
Cleve
3201
Pitt
2515
NYG
1495
Minn
160
Jax
-5307



Photo: AP Photo, Ann Heisenfelt

Week Eight Football ERA Composite Scores

The Football ERA Formula outputs a result that runs on a scale from approximately 4000 points to -4000 with losing teams that are dominated getting pushed into the negative numbers by their victors.  Defensive Elements of the Formula contribute to this negative score in games constituting blowouts.  A few years back, RealFootballAnalysis.com developed a formula that translates the Final Game Results of The Football ERA into Composite Scores that resemble football scores as much as possible.  Here are this week's Composite Scores:
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StL
70
Sea
14



Det
61
Dall
19



GB
61
Minn
19



SF
57
Jax
20



Car
54
TB
24



Den
54
Was
29



Arz
52
Atl
29



Oak
52
Pitt
32



KC
48
Cleve
32



NYG
47
Phi
29



NO
45
Buff
37



Cinn
44
NYJ
31



Mia
43
NE
43



Photo from BleacherReport.com