Power Rankings (Week 9)

Well I can't say the results aren't strange.  Generally speaking, it seems teams aren't punished that much for keeping it close against good teams, it's playing lousy against bad teams that hurts you.  Case in point, the Patriots hold the best record, but could have lost to Buffalo and San Diego.  Still, something about these numbers speaks a little strange, so I'm still going to do some tweaking.  And I'm still interested in coming up with a picks system.  Anyway, here you go.

Rank	Team	Power Ranking
1	Pittsburgh Steelers	1.000
2	New York Jets	0.989
3	New England Patriots	0.964
4	Baltimore Ravens	0.889
5	Atlanta Falcons	0.873
6	Houston Texans	0.870
7	Tennessee Titans	0.833
8	Green Bay Packers	0.832
9	Indianapolis Colts	0.817
10	New York Giants	0.796
11	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	0.794
12	Seattle Seahawks	0.771
13	Kansas City Chiefs	0.768
14	Philadelphia Eagles	0.760
15	Chicago Bears	0.743
16	St. Louis Rams	0.724
17	New Orleans Saints	0.718
18	Cleveland Browns	0.710
19	Miami Dolphins	0.707
20	Oakland Raiders	0.703
21	Washington Redskins	0.689
22	Arizona Cardinals	0.688
23	Jacksonville Jaguars	0.667
24	Detroit Lions	0.660
25	San Diego Chargers	0.634
26	Minnesota Vikings	0.617
27	Denver Broncos	0.615
28	Cincinnati Bengals	0.586
29	San Francisco 49ers	0.544
30	Dallas Cowboys	0.493
31	Buffalo Bills	0.481
32	Carolina Panthers	0.478

 So what to make of these?  Well, I think the most useful takeaway is separating good teams from bad teams.  For instance, Jacksonville is a bad team, Tampa Bay is good.  Learn something.