Week 13 Football Outsider Rankings
Football Outsiders has their week 13 football rankings up here. Previously, I explained why I like Football Outsiders here.
Arizona is almost there, in its traditional spot! It is second from the bottom, but unfortunately San Francisco has the bottom spot nailed down pretty solidly. I find the Outsiders rankings particularly useful when they diverge from a team's record. One case in point is the Rams, or Les Mouflons as the Tuesday Morning Quarterback calls them. Their 6-6 record seems to hide the fact that they are a pretty bad team. This makes sense, as they have won a couple, like the game with Seattle, that they should have lost.
On the other ends of the scale, its still Philly-NE-IND-PITT at the top. I like the NE and PIT stats the best, as they have both nice defense and nice offense. Philly's #1 ranking still worries me - its defense is a bit soft and a lot of their ranking comes from special teams, which are notoriously fickle. People have jumped off the NE bandwagon a bit, but I still think they are the team to beat.
