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📈2025 NFL Power Ratings and Projections🏈
Ratings, rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
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🏀 2025-26 NBA Elo Forecast and Player Ratings 📈
Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.
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Neil Paine
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🏒 2025-26 NHL Team Elo Power Rankings & Goals Above Replacement Player Ratings 📉
Power ratings and forecasts for every NHL team and player this season.
10 hrs ago
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Neil Paine
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No Matter What, Chaos Is Coming for the College Football Playoff
Too many teams fit the usual playoff profile this year — and a Duke upset over UVA in the ACC could unleash true Selection Sunday madness.
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Neil Paine
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🏈🎙️ Football Bytes: Scared of the Burrow Factor
Three Thanksgiving favorites went down, nobody looks like a real contender, and now we have to decide what happens if Joe Burrow suddenly wakes up the…
Dec 4
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Are the Panthers and Oilers Out of Gas?
Early in the 2025-26 season, both sides of the perennial Stanley Cup matchup are far from getting back there again.
Dec 4
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Neil Paine
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Meet the New Bears. Same as the Old Bears?
Playoffs, Chicago-Style means a heaping dose of luck and unsustainable expectations — but this year, maybe something else, too.
Dec 3
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Neil Paine
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Will the Thunder Break the Warriors' Wins Record?
OKC’s blistering start has them eyeing win-streak records and 73 victories — even if the math says their chase of history is far from a sure thing.
Dec 2
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Neil Paine
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Lane Kiffin Followed the Money
Ole Miss is playoff-bound, LSU is rebuilding — and Lane Kiffin is jumping anyway, proving once again that the highest bidder always wins in modern…
Dec 1
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November 2025
The Week That Was (November 24-28, 2025)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
Nov 29
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Neil Paine
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The Thunder Might Finally Make Us "Respect the Cup"
Oklahoma City's dominance — plus some evidence that teams treat Cup games differently — suggest the NBA's in-season tournament is edging closer to…
Nov 28
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Neil Paine
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Thanksgiving Football is Getting Good Again
For years, the NFL’s holiday games weren't as compelling as they could have been. Now, with a deeper slate and a better version of the Lions…
Nov 27
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Neil Paine
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