It’s Week 8 of the 2015 season, which makes it a weird time on the NFL calendar. Almost half the schedule has been played, so it feels like we should have a decent grasp on which teams are good and bad. But this is the NFL, where we don’t know anything and we never will. […]
Once again, the New England Patriots find themselves atop the NFL heap: 5-0 so far this year with the league’s best points-per-game margin. Las Vegas oddsmakers consider New England far and away the best team in football. Excellence isn’t unfamiliar for the Pats; just last month, we anointed their 2007 squad as the best single-season […]
Once again, the New England Patriots find themselves atop the NFL heap: 5-0 so far this year with the league’s best points-per-game margin. Las Vegas oddsmakers consider New England far and away the best team in football. Excellence isn’t unfamiliar for the Pats; just last month, we anointed their 2007 squad as the best single-season […]
When we were prepping for this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast (subscribe today!), our producer Jody Avirgan pointed out an apparent oddity in the NFL standings: Despite a record number of undefeated teams through six weeks, only 10 clubs have winning records, with four more at .500 — meaning 18 of the […]
When we were prepping for this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast (subscribe today!), our producer Jody Avirgan pointed out an apparent oddity in the NFL standings: Despite a record number of undefeated teams through six weeks, only 10 clubs have winning records, with four more at .500 — meaning 18 of the […]
