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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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Jim Montgomery’s Bruins: The Full NHL Coaching Experience in 2+ Seasons
Montgomery's saga in Boston crammed the highs and lows of being a hockey coach into an incredibly compressed timeframe.
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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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Football Bytes: The Detroit Lions Are on the Hunt for History
Plus, the most important games left in the 2024 regular season.
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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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Hockey Bytes: Why Are the Red Wings, Sabres and Senators Still Stuck in Playoff Purgatory?
How 3 of the longest playoff droughts in NHL history may continue for another year. Plus, the Avs' uphill fight to sustain their renaissance.
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Basketball Bytes: The NBA Players Who Are — And Aren’t — Their Usual Selves This Year
Which players have departed from their previous statistical profiles? Plus, Chris Paul can't help but improve his teams.
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📝 The Week That Was (November 11-15, 2024)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
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The College Football Teams Who Are Overachieving — Or Falling Short — In 2024
Let's compare each FBS program to their recent standard of performance.
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Hockey Bytes: Washington Wake-Up
The Capitals seemed cooked not too long ago — but now they might have a bridge to the future. Plus, remembering a forgotten star of the early 2000s who…
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Football Bytes: Can the Chiefs Keep Winning Ugly?
Plus, the Falcons are losing the kicking battle by a historic margin.
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