Week 17 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	…	30871
Cinn	…	28832
Den	…	28362
Det	…	27243
Sea	…	26760
NO	…	26257
SF	…	24674
SD	…	22709
KC	…	22354
Arz	…	22340
NE	…	21428
Buff	…	20813
NYJ	…	20200
GB	…	18985
Phi	…	18782
Hou	…	16098
Was	…	15904
Tenn	…	15543
Ind	…	15438
Bal	…	14162
Pitt	…	12456
Minn	…	12329
StL	…	11737
Oak	…	9810
Chi	…	9315
NYG	…	7717
Cleve	…	7259
TB	…	6851
Atl	…	5897
Mia	…	4044
Dall	…	3945
Jax	…	-3031

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Week Seventeen 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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NE	…	57
Buff	…	27
NO	…	56
TB	…	23
Cinn	…	54
Bal	…	21
Ind	…	54
Jax	…	24
Sea	…	54
StL	…	26
Den	…	53
Oak	…	21
NYG	…	52
Was	…	32
NYJ	…	52
Mia	…	23
Minn	…	48
Det	…	32
Car	…	46
Atl	…	35
GB	…	45
Chi	…	33
Pitt	…	44
Cleve	…	30
KC	…	43
SD	…	39
Arz	…	41
SF	…	34
Phi	…	41
Dall	…	38
Tenn	…	40
Hou	…	38

Photo: Jim Rogash, Getty Images