Blind Power Rankings, Week 6

While the Vikings haven't played, there's still news around the league to pay attention to. These "power rankings" don't take into account difficult to parse or accountable data (like a starting quarterback going down or a different scheme) that could be extremely important in really judging team quality, but it seems to have a decent track record. They've all been adjusted for by strength-of-schedule in their particular metric as well.

Personally, I prefer the efficiency metric, but the table below is sortable so you can choose whichever one you prefer. First is the ranking as if every match was worth equal weight. If you want a refresher on how the rankings were calculated or what they include, take a look here.

If you prefer to prioritize recent wins, look below. There are a couple of ways to weight recency, and most are likely superior to what I did, but generally speaking I had the most recent week worth just a little bit less than twice as much as the first week. This creates some problems for teams coming off the bye week, but all it means is movement towards the middle by one or two ranks:

There you go!

I'm busy converting the various numbers it's spit out into point spreads, and then I can give you updates on how well they do.