NFL Power Rankings - Week 5

 
 

Here are the NFL Power Rankings after week 5. Big movers this week include Atlanta and Seattle who scored big wins against San Francisco and Jacksonville respectively – Atlanta and Seattle scored a lot of points and gave up very few which translates well in my scoring system. Minnesota was the strangest move of the week dropping 8 spots despite a good win against St. Louis. This is indicative of the fact that the scores are still pretty bunched up between 1.75 and 1.95 and Minnesota gave up 10 points to a St. Louis team which had scored 24 points in the first four games. The large number of really bad teams in the league this year could skew the scores for those teams that have faced the bad teams. These wild shifts should occur less in the second half of the season but for now the scores are still settling out and more games are factored into the rankings.

The Broncos dropped flipped spots with Indianapolis this week but both teams are still in the top 3 and are looking very strong. This week, Denver faces San Diego on Monday night. San Diego is in the 20^th spot in the Power Rankings after their bye week. For a complete explanation of the system, see the first iteration of the rankings from Week 4: http://www.firejoshmcdanielsnow.com/2009/10/nfl-power-rankings-week-4.html

 
 

Glossary:

AOP = Adjusted Offensive Percentage

(1/AOP) = The Inverse of Adjusted Offensive Percentage. This is used to normalize the scores so that lower is better in the final column.

ADP = Adjusted Defensive Percentage

Points For: The total number of points the team has scored in the season to date

Points Allowed: The total number of points the team has given up in the season to date

Opponents Total Points Scored: The total number of points that the team's aggregate opponents have scored in the season to date against all their opponents

Opponents Total Points Allowed: The total number of points that the team's aggregate opponents have allowed against them in the season to date against all their opponents

 

			Opponents Total			Opponents Total
	Team	Points For	Points Allowed	1/AOP	Points Allowed	Points For	ADP	(1/AOP)+ADP	Change
1	New Orleans	144	452	0.784722222	66	408	0.647058824	1.431781046	NC
2	Indianapolis	137	543	0.79270073	71	493	0.720081136	1.512781866	1
3	Denver	99	530	1.070707071	43	431	0.498839907	1.569546978	-1
4	Atlanta	102	399	0.977941176	63	385	0.654545455	1.632486631	18
5	New England	104	407	0.782692308	91	517	0.880077369	1.662769677	1
6	New York Giants	151	588	0.778807947	71	396	0.896464646	1.675272593	1
7	Seattle	115	520	0.904347826	82	485	0.845360825	1.749708651	12
8	Chicago	105	435	1.035714286	78	435	0.717241379	1.752955665	2
9	Cincinnati	101	452	0.895049505	90	509	0.884086444	1.779135949	6
10	Miami	112	440	0.785714286	106	518	1.023166023	1.808880309	7
11	New York Jets	101	522	1.033663366	88	559	0.787119857	1.820783223	-6
12	San Francisco	112	470	0.839285714	98	492	0.995934959	1.835220674	-8
13	Philadelphia	127	448	0.881889764	86	353	0.974504249	1.856394013	-4
14	Baltimore	138	542	0.785507246	97	445	1.08988764	1.875394887	-1
15	Dallas	122	496	0.813114754	98	459	1.067538126	1.88065288	-3
16	Minnesota	156	620	0.794871795	90	408	1.102941176	1.897812971	-8
17	Green Bay	104	404	0.971153846	93	396	0.939393939	1.910547786	1
18	Arizona	85	416	1.223529412	89	461	0.772234273	1.995763685	-7
19	Pittsburgh	113	571	1.010619469	98	494	0.991902834	2.002522303	-3
20	San Diego	101	431	1.066831683	102	412	0.990291262	2.057122945	NC
21	Detroit	103	414	0.803883495	162	591	1.370558376	2.174441871	NC
22	Jacksonville	97	501	1.032989691	127	536	1.184701493	2.217691183	-8
23	Kansas City	84	482	1.147619048	138	587	1.175468484	2.323087531	3
24	Carolina	57	329	1.442982456	104	424	0.981132075	2.424114532	7
25	Tennessee	84	504	1.2	139	563	1.234458259	2.434458259	-1
26	Houston	115	573	0.996521739	120	416	1.442307692	2.438829431	-3
27	Buffalo	77	524	1.361038961	116	483	1.200828157	2.561867118	-2
28	Tampa Bay	68	453	1.332352941	140	550	1.272727273	2.605080214	NC
29	Cleveland	55	436	1.585454545	121	571	1.059544658	2.644999204	-2
30	Washington	73	623	1.706849315	82	413	0.992736077	2.699585393	-1
31	Oakland	49	474	1.934693878	130	550	1.181818182	3.116512059	-1
32	St. Louis	34	445	2.617647059	146	560	1.303571429	3.921218487	NC