NFL Power Rankings Methodology:
FootballLOCKS.com’s weekly
NFL power rankings aren't a listing of teams in order of their current
standings like some news and information sources covering
pro football publish from week to week… FootballLOCKS.com’s
pro football power rankings emphasize and adjust for the strength
of schedule played to determine the weekly ranks.
The Art of Power Ranking NFL Teams Beyond The Standings:
One team can lose a close game or two versus a top team or two without falling 12 spots in the power rankings
like you might find while reading an NFL power poll from another NFL power ratings publisher.
Likewise, one NFL team can crush a couple of bottom feeders
without instantly soaring 12 spots to crack the top 5 in the power ratings when they haven't won a game versus
another top 10 team in
a year and a half, let alone another team in the top 5.
These are level headed NFL power rankings. We can't spreak for the NFL power rank methods
of others, but if calculations predict
that a 3-4 team would likely win
in a game versus a 4-3 team on a neutral field, then the 3-4 team will be ranked higher in the
FootballLOCKS.com NFL power ranks.
A Goal of Pro Football Power Rankings:
One goal is to arrive at a ranking of NFL teams
that serves as a prediction of what league standings would
resemble if every team played the same schedule.
Therefore, in order to determine each team's NFL power rating,
adjustments are made for the strength of schedule
each team has faced.
After all, the NFL power rankings are an effort to assess which teams are
best in the NFL from top to bottom, not which teams had
the easiest schedule so have the best record at any given
point in time, or even the best record
in the final NFL standings.
As a result, within FootballLOCKS.com’s NFL rankings it’s possible
to find a team with
a better record ranked closely to or below a
team with a record that isn’t quite as good... Otherwise, NFL
power ratings would simply be a list of teams in exact order of their records; and
there’s already a name for that, “NFL standings”.
Of course FootballLOCKS.com’s NFL power ranking formula is instrumental
in making NFL line adjustments internally as part of
FootballLOCKS.com’s
backwards odds handicapping strategy for making NFL picks versus Las Vegas weekly NFL odds and point spreads. However,
as FootballLOCKS.com is in the NFL handicapping business,
this element of the weekly NFL power rankings is kept internal.
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