Miscellaneous observations so far: The longest beatpath so far is from the NY Giants through Detroit. Second longest is Carolina through Minnesota. Beatpaths outperformed me this week! 10-4 so far, and I went against two of the successful picks. Buffalo is undefeated over two winless teams that are supposed to be good. San Diego is [...]
Here’s the decision of how to rank Week 2. We start with the Week 1 outcomes. For #1, we have a 16-way tie. We take the team that was highest-ranked last week (the end of last season). Then for #2, we have a 16-way tie (the fifteen winners plus Kansas City). And we take the [...]
I turned on an old vanilla tiebreaker: if all else fails, refer to last week’s rankings. We’re using that this week for the Beatpaths Rankings. We have a 16-way tie for #1. We defer to the highest ranking team last week (end of last season). That’s New England. Then, we have a 16-way tie for [...]
Well, it’s week 1, and of course we have a beatpath graph for the week. Here’s the rough tiebreaker for Week 1. There’s a 16-way tie for first place, so we defer to the rankings at the end of last season. We pick the top team. And then we go through the other 15 winners. [...]
The official announcement that Beatpaths is part of King Kaufman’s Panel O’ Experts this year… New to the Panel this year is Curt Siffert, proprietor of Beatpaths, a Web site that does something with math and charts that I’ve spent a good seven minutes trying to figure out over the last three years, without success. [...]
For those that are new visitors this year, here’s a quick description of what we’re all about. A few years back, I was reading one of those websites that purports to power-rank sports teams based off of every single in-game stat in the book. And, being a Broncos homer, I was peeved that the Broncos [...]
So, I’m curious – while these first couple of weeks are going to be based off of the rankings from the end of last season, many of the teams are quite different. Weigh in now that the first week’s games are mostly over. What looks surprising to you? Who’s a possible dark horse this year? [...]
It’s the start of a new season! We’ve been radio silence here at beatpaths.com in the offseason, but we’re ready for another year, and there are some changes coming soon, too. But before we get into that, it’s time to go through the formality of the Week 1 picks. The first couple of weeks are [...]