I had a bit of extra time tonight, so here is the NBA graph for this season’s regular-season games, through December 10th. The power rankings (after the jump) are compared to the power rankings at the end of last season.
Time for the Week 14 picks! Isaacson-Tarbell was 11-5 last week, leading all variants. Beatpaths and ITB were both 10-6. I was 1-0 on my personal picks, so I’m now three ahead of ITB for the season. The BeatPicks were 6-4, or 45-18 for the season. There are six BeatPicks this week, and I am [...]
Hello folks, time for the weekly ranking analysis. The changes in the ranks following Week 13′s games were a slight uptick from last week. I’ve added a trendline, which seems appropriate at this point in the season, and it indicates that the rankings are, in general, increasingly stable over time. You can see by comparing [...]
Hey folks, Kenneth here with the rankings! Some big movers and shakers here. One team makes a dive that’s…well, I don’t recall quite as big a drop happening before. But hey, that kinda numbery talk is for Tom! Me, I deal with graphs and stuff. Let’s get to it! One note: it occurs to me [...]
A couple of upsets flatten the graph a bit this week, as will always happen when you start with an extremely vertical graph – vertical means fragile. Isaacson-Tarbell correctly picked Jacksonville beating Houston due to Jacksonville having the better record, and finished 11-5. Beatpaths and ITB were both 10-6. My personal picks were 1-0, so [...]
Tom here with the analysis of Week 12′s ranking changes. A slight decline since last week. Only two teams making big moves: Houston and Jacksonville, the first which looks better than its record and the second which looks worse than its record. Houston was pretty consistently ranked in the middle of the pack for the [...]
The first game this week is between the NY Jets and Buffalo. The NY Jets have the better record, so Isaacson-Tarbell picks them. Beatpaths also picks them, so it’s a unanimous ITB pick, but it’s not a BeatPick. I’ll have the rest of the picks later this week! And, for the rest of the picks… [...]
Hey folks! Kenneth here again with the rankings. You’ll notice that I decided against starting with my name; that’s because it was getting too clunky to write openings that way. Not that this one is going smoothly; three sentences in and I’m already meta. What am I here for? Oh yeah! The rankings! The graph [...]