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🏒 2024-25 NHL Team Elo Power Rankings & Goals Above Replacement Player Ratings 📉
Power ratings and forecasts for every NHL team and player this season.
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🏀 2024-25 NBA Forecast and Estimated RAPTOR Ratings 📈
Track how I'm forecasting every team’s chance to make — and win — the NBA Finals, all season long.
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Mailbag! LeBron's 3 HOF Careers, Planning For Ovechkin's Record, Hoosier Losses and Head-to-Head QBs
It's time for a long-overdue answering of reader questions.
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🏀2024-25 NCAA Tournament Meta-Forecast 📊
Track each Division I men's basketball team's odds to make the NCAA tourney field.
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How Much Should We Really Worry About the Dodgers’ Megateam?
L.A. is spending far more than any other MLB team. But does that mean they have another World Series in the bag?
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🏈 2024 College Football Quarterback Stats & Rankings 📈
Updating schedule-adjusted Points Above Replacement (PAR) for every FBS quarterback this season.
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Ohio State Survived More Tough Tests Than Any Other Champion
By holding off Notre Dame in Monday's national title game, the 2024 Buckeyes cemented their place in history.
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What We've Learned Before the NFL’s Conference Championships
Let's break down some odds and numbers ahead of football’s Final Four.
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📈2024 NFL Elo Ratings and Projections🏈
Power ratings, rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
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📝 The Week That Was (January 13-17, 2025)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
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Can the Lions Keep Detroit’s Sports Renaissance Flourishing?
The city has already turned a lot of things around from just a few years ago.
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The Expanded College Football Playoff Made This Year’s Bowl Season Absurdly Long
It's about twice as long as it used to be, with a lot of dead time between games.
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