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🏀 2025 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈
Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.
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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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⚾ 2025 MLB Elo Power Ratings, Playoff Odds & Wins Above Replacement (WAR) rankings 📈
The following table is a list of MLB teams with their Elo ratings and their predicted wins throughout the 2025 season.
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The Florida Panthers Are a Dynasty That Rose From a Sweep
Florida was once the NHL’s most irrelevant team. Now they’ve won two straight Cups — and showed the rest of the league how to bounce back from a…
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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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Would the Florida Panthers Be a Dynasty If They Win the Cup?
A second straight Stanley Cup (in a third Final in a row) would put Florida in rare NHL company — but how rare?
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🏁 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Rankings 🚗
Tracking the top drivers in the sport, all season long.
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The Probability That Could Haunt Indiana
The Pacers were on the verge of going up 3-1 in the Finals. Now they're tied 2-2 — playing for either a title, or a regrettable footnote in NBA history.
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The Week That Was (June 9-13, 2025)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
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What The Pacers Have Done To OKC
The Thunder weren't themselves in Game 3, and Indiana is now 2 wins from an unlikely NBA title.
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⚾ Baseball Bytes: Did the Braves Miss Their Shot at a Dynasty?
Atlanta mastered modern team-building — but their golden era may be depreciating. Plus, Roman Anthony and how quickly top prospects get a hit.
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Tiger at Pebble Is Still Untouchable
Twenty-five years later, Tiger Woods’ 2000 U.S. Open remains the most dominant major performance ever — and I have a new metric, ELDRICK, to prove it.
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