From: schmke@cco.caltech.edu (Kevin Todd Schmidt)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Schmidt Computer Rankings through 15-Dec
Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:10:50 GMT
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Here are my computers rankings through 15-Dec-92.  I have modified
my algorithm to give more weight to recent games but I didn't have
time to check it out as much as I should have.

San Francisco stays on top with New Orleans moving to the #2 slot.
Dallas' loss and Philadelphia's narrow win over Seattle dropped each
one of them.  San Diego is the top AFC team.

My rankings have the top 6 NFC teams being San Francico, New Orleans,
Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington, and Minnesota.  If the season were
to end today these teams would go the the playoffs.

My rankings have the top 6 AFC teams being San Diego, Kansas City,
Houston, Buffalo, LA Raiders, and Cleveland.  The missing probable
playoff teams are Pittsburgh and Miami.  They are ranked lower due
to my weighting of recent games.  It doesn't seem quite right though
that they are as low as they are but I said I didn't have time to
look at my algorithm closely yet.

I went 6-7-1 against the spread and 8-6 picking winners this week.

Kevin

Rank Team                      Points  Record Sch. Str.  Last Week   Change
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1    San_Francisco             78.786  12-2-0  70.484  (  1,  77.896)  +0
2    New_Orleans               77.735  11-3-0  70.306  (  4,  75.525)  +2
3    Dallas                    76.210  11-3-0  69.992  (  2,  77.498)  -1
4    Philadelphia              75.483   9-5-0  71.911  (  3,  76.784)  -1
5    San_Diego                 74.839   9-5-0  68.375  (  5,  75.192)  +0
6    Washington                73.213   9-5-0  70.892  ( 11,  72.738)  +5
7    Minnesota                 72.886   9-5-0  68.977  (  9,  72.962)  +2
8    Kansas_City               72.290   9-5-0  70.113  (  6,  73.928)  -2
9    Houston                   72.255   8-6-0  68.969  (  7,  73.202)  -2
10   Buffalo                   71.148  10-4-0  68.285  ( 14,  70.025)  +4
11   Green_Bay                 70.432   8-6-0  68.135  ( 15,  69.399)  +4
12   LA_Raiders                70.344   6-8-0  69.737  ( 10,  72.791)  -2
13   Cleveland                 70.318   7-7-0  68.544  ( 12,  72.146)  -1
14   Phoenix                   70.196  4-10-0  72.494  ( 17,  68.625)  +3
15   Miami                     70.171   9-5-0  69.610  ( 19,  67.921)  +4
16   Atlanta                   70.114   6-8-0  71.076  ( 20,  67.511)  +4
17   Pittsburgh                69.883  10-4-0  68.407  (  8,  73.026)  -9
18   Denver                    68.744   7-7-0  71.099  ( 13,  70.537)  -5
19   LA_Rams                   68.304   5-9-0  71.540  ( 16,  68.992)  -3
20   Detroit                   66.853  4-10-0  70.186  ( 21,  65.653)  +1
21   Chicago                   66.819   5-9-0  69.243  ( 25,  64.286)  +4
22   Indianapolis              66.206   7-7-0  68.931  ( 22,  65.291)  +0
23   NY_Giants                 66.061   5-9-0  71.543  ( 18,  67.962)  -5
24   NY_Jets                   64.593  4-10-0  68.857  ( 23,  65.008)  -1
25   New_England               63.936  2-12-0  69.647  ( 28,  62.723)  +3
26   Seattle                   63.446  2-12-0  70.495  ( 27,  63.699)  +1
27   Tampa_Bay                 63.208  4-10-0  70.098  ( 26,  63.809)  -1
28   Cincinnati                63.124  4-10-0  69.652  ( 24,  64.341)  -4
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