From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Subject: End-of-season KAL computer rankings
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:56:47 GMT

Here are my computer rankings through the end of the regular season.  

SF, NO, and Dallas are still the top three.  The Vikings have moved up to #9.
Interestingly enough, the ratings program agrees exactly with the NFL rules
on which 12 teams should be in the playoffs.  The order is a little
different, though.

                National Football League 
                   National Conference 
    East          W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed
Dallas           13  3  0 409 243  6.109  1.467  0.80633789   3    D2
Philadelphia     11  5  0 354 245  5.918  2.498  0.70319247   5    W2
Washington        9  7  0 300 255  4.644  3.186  0.59308845  12    W3
NY Giants         6 10  0 306 367  2.779  4.285  0.39344287  18
Phoenix           4 12  0 243 332  2.441  5.636  0.30224973  21

    Central       W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed 
Minnesota        11  5  0 374 249  4.520  2.572  0.63732177   9    D3
Green Bay         9  7  0 276 296  4.351  4.046  0.51817447  15
Detroit           5 11  0 273 332  2.074  4.961  0.29480496  22
Chicago           5 11  0 295 361  2.351  5.920  0.28426901  23
Tampa Bay         5 11  0 267 365  1.952  5.489  0.26228952  24

    West          W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed 
San Francisco    14  2  0 431 236  7.126  1.079  0.86848104   1    D1
New Orleans      12  4  0 330 202  4.827  1.041  0.82255340   2    W1
LA Rams           6 10  0 313 383  2.487  3.949  0.38639686  19
Atlanta           6 10  0 327 414  2.129  3.702  0.36510056  20

                   American Conference 
    East          W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed 
Buffalo          11  5  0 381 283  6.037  2.364  0.71859437   4    W1
Miami            11  5  0 340 281  4.615  2.741  0.62734371  10    D1
Indianapolis      9  7  0 216 302  3.457  2.776  0.55462986  14
NY Jets           4 12  0 220 315  1.882  5.680  0.24885814  25
New England       2 14  0 205 363  0.922  7.395  0.11081909  28

    Central       W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed 
Pittsburgh       11  5  0 299 225  5.221  2.677  0.66106868   8    D2
Houston          10  6  0 352 258  5.036  3.123  0.61727661  11    W2
Cleveland         7  9  0 272 275  3.233  4.561  0.41481337  17
Cincinnati        5 11  0 274 364  1.638  5.633  0.22522451  26

    West          W  L  T  PF  PA  Wins   Losses  Rating    Rank  Seed 
San Diego        11  5  0 335 241  4.599  2.052  0.69149733   6    D3
Kansas City      10  6  0 348 282  4.975  2.451  0.66992104   7    W3
Denver            8  8  0 262 329  4.054  2.936  0.57997519  13
LA Raiders        7  9  0 249 281  3.528  4.040  0.46616152  16
Seattle           2 14  0 140 312  0.822  6.548  0.11149123  27

Last week the program predicted 11 of 14 games correctly.

For the playoffs, it makes the following predictions:

NFC:  Home team wins in every case, unless New Orleans plays at Minnesota
for the conference championship.

AFC:  Home team wins in every case.

Superbowl:  NFC wins.  Yes, I took "The Bet III".

Keith Lewis             klewis@mitre.org          "Mr. Cheap"
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