Mark's Ranker

I took the liberty to create my own ranking system for the NFL with the logic that a win against one team is a "virtual" win against all the teams that that team has beat, and vice versa.

The result is a matrix about 400 columns wide and 1800 rows deep and what I'm hoping is that it increases its "predictive power" each week. Here is what the league looks like after 5 weeks.


And here's a little video to help explain things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l26Kk4YUZZY



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