Beatpaths

Hello folks! Kenneth here again! Yes, I’m back in the saddle after a week of frantically trying to get things done, get presents bought, and get myself to Chicago in the snow. But now I’m back! Thanks to site patriarch ThunderThumbs for doing the dirty work for me. I’m actually [...]

Fun week of games! Right now the AFC South looks very strong – if Beatpaths were to pick the playoff seedings as of today, we’d have three AFC South teams in the playoffs, with Jacksonville and Houston both ranked above the top AFC North team, Cincinnati. We’d also have three NFC East teams. The AFC [...]

Tom here with the analysis of stability in this week’s rankings, and the confidence of picks for this week’s matchups. Two big movers this week: Arizona dropping from 13th to 23rd, and Oakland rising from 24th to 13th. Do-si-do!

Overall a big drop in the number of ranking changes. Very few big shifts [...]

Time for the Week 16 picks!
Beatpaths and ITB were both 10-6 this week, a slightly less accurate week for all methods overall. Isaacson-Tarbell was 8-8. I missed on my personal picks, so I’m again even with ITB for the season. The BeatPicks were 7-2, or 57-21 for the season. There are [...]

Ahoy, it is I, not-Kenneth! TT here fiddling with the rankings since Kenneth is otherwise detained. Something to do with Santa. Pardon the late timing, the skeleton crew is doing the best it can.

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Last Week
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(Lost to DAL) Even though New Orleans finally lost, it’s not enough to make them lose their top ranking. [...]

A vertical graph two weeks in a row! While we’ve had some upsets, most teams are in about the same place, with the exception of two teams that made significant moves in the rankings. Can you guess which two teams?
Beatpaths and ITB were both 10-6 this week, a slightly less accurate week for all methods [...]

Hey everyone, Tom here—a bit behind this week, but about 240 undergraduates needed their final exams graded. The two big movers this week were Houston (for the third week in a row) and Miami.

The number of rank changes this week (112) is the same as Weeks 4 & 7, but the variance is much [...]

Time for the Week 14 picks!
Isaacson-Tarbell was 12-4 last week, leading all variants. Beatpaths was 10-6 and ITB was 11-5. I was 1-3 on my personal picks, so I’m now one ahead of ITB for the season. The BeatPicks were 5-1, or 50-19 for the season. There are nine BeatPicks this [...]

Hey folks! Kenneth here with your weekly rankings. Lots of commentary, some of which might be useful!
Boy, it’s starting to feel like deja vu to me. Or maybe a yo-yo. The graph seems to keep straightening up, then flattening out, then straightening up, and so on. I wish it would [...]

A couple of crazy upsets this week, and we’re going vertical again. At 12-4, Isaacson-Tarbell led all variants – this seems to be a pattern late in the season, even though it still has a ways to go to make up for its early-season stumbles. Beatpaths was 10-6, and ITB was 11-5. I was 1-3 [...]