by Chase Stuart
on July 17, 2013
Long-time commenter Richie has been kind enough to create an Elo Ranking System where users can rank each of the 32 teams in the NFL. He’s hosting it on his site, but has come up with a Football Perspective-sounding url for us:
http://footballperspective.tooshay.us/teamrate.php
You can read more about how Elo Rankings work here, but the beauty is in its simplicity. All you need to do is answer one question: is Team A or Team B going to be better in 2013?
Vote early and often. The more results, the better. And please share with your friends. It will be fun to see what the wisdom of crowds tells us about team strength as we gear up for the 2013 season.
And a big thanks again to Richie for doing all the legwork!
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by Chase Stuart
on July 11, 2013
For three straight years, NFL Network has produced a list of the Top 100 Players of 20xx. Many people have criticized the results, and this summary from Bill Barnwell hits on some of the main issues. But my issue isn’t with the mistakes the players may be making in the voting booth, but the mistakes made in tabulating the votes. I want to suggest to the fine folks at NFL Network an alternative method for deriving a list of the top 100 players. This method has three big advantages over the current process:
(1) It will take players only a few minutes — or as long as they like — to participate.
(2) More players will be part of the judging, since the time commitment will be lessened.
(3) The results will be more accurate.
Instead of asking players to write down a bunch of names from memory, my suggested method would involve asking them a bunch of simple and straightforward questions. Imagine a player sitting in front of a computer screen, and asked to pick an answer to each of the following:
That’s a lot better than the current system, described below by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk:
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