I stole that from the Cowboys boards. If it’s wrong, it wouldn’t surprise me.
I re-crunched the numbers and here’s what I got, including ties. Don’t yell if my math sucks.
Regular Season Winning % as of Week 16
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Miami Dolphins…387-280-4, 0.5797
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Dallas Cowboys…433-314-6, 0.5790
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Chicago Bears…685-498-43, 0.5763
Regular Season Winning % as of Week 17
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Dallas Cowboys…434-314-6, 0.5796
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Miami Dolphins…387-281-4, 0.5789
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Chicago Bears…686-498-43, 0.5766
Gotcha. So the message was correct, just the guy posted it to the Cowboys board didn’t know how to calculate winning percentage.
I’m impressed the Bears are in that mix. You’d think the newer teams would have a stranglehold on it what with seemingly inexorable regression to the mean, but no, Bears hang tough.
Apparently the Cowboys also set the single season attendance record with just over 718,000 this year. Nearly 90k per game.
Damnit…it was easy to root for the Cowboys yesterday, as the alternative was the Eagles getting a 1st-round bye. But next week…man, that’s gonna be tough.
Meteor? Please?
See ya, Sheridan. Sucked knowing you.
The only surprising thing about Sheridan getting fired is that it took until after 5:00pm. Should have been announced 5 seconds after Zorn.
He probably used the winning percentages from last year, which are published all over in August so the prognosticators can… prognosticate.
If you don’t look carefully they can appear to be based on this year’s records.
I am comforted that the Eagles started blitzing Romo more after the half and held the Cowboys to only 7 points from that point. I feel better knowing that the Eagles couldn’t possibly be worse on offense than they were last week. And that Andy Reid is way better at game planning than Wade Phillips.
I’m trying to convince myself that this week will be different. Didn’t the Dope determine it was historically difficult to beat a team three times in a season? Ugh.
From today’s Sporting News:
No. I said it must be, and then somebody actually went and looked at the games and basically said what divemaster quoted from TSN.
The one really amazing thing I noticed when I went back and looked at the history myself was that Jacksonville lost three games in in the 99-00 season (2 in the regular season, 1 in the playoffs). All three losses were to Tennessee.
Ah, okay, I couldn’t remember. Thanks, and thanks divemaster for the quote. Doesn’t make me feel any better, but the Eagles clearly weren’t showing the Cowboys everything this last week, so maybe it could be different. I’ve been impressed by this team’s ability to fight and claw their way to victories, so I was a little shocked they didn’t seem to put up a fight at all. Maybe they were playing possum. I hope they were playing possum.
That’s a really strange time to play possum, losing out on a bye week and home field advantage. Had the Eagles won that game, the only way they would meet the Cowboys in the playoffs would have been in Philly for the NFC Championship game.
No way Philly was playing possum with a home game and bye week on the line, risking being bumped down to the 6 seed.
Dallas straight up whooped 'em.
I will now troll this thread to briefly point out that the champions of the NFC East this season were…
the San Diego Chargers. 4-0!
And now back to your regularly scheduled NFC East discussion.
I don’t understand it either, but they weren’t playing to their normal gameplan at all, most notably and noticeably so during the first half. They were wildly divergent from their season-long game plan to that point. Hopefully they have an ace up their sleeve, other than the inevitable Romo meltdown, of course.
Ah yes. You know it’s late December-early January when the Charger fans are talking and bragging. I’ll know it’s February when those same fans are silent and sulking.
Charger fans were insufferable on the giants.com boards from 2004-2007, right up until Eli won Superbowl MVP. That shut up those butthurt crybabies right good. Those four years have warped me, though, so that now I hate the Chargers roughly on par with the Eagles. As in, I would rejoice if their charter plane crashed into a cornfield.
Ugh…I wish that would’ve shut them up.
“Waaaaahh! Eli didn’t deserve it! It was the defense that won that game! Waaaahh! He still can’t beat us! Waaaaahhh! Daddy’s boy! Waaaahh! He didn’t want to play wif us!!”
My greatest wish is that after you die, you get a chance to peek in on alternate realities and timelines. It’s be fascinating to see how things would look now had the trade never went down – Eli leading the Chargers, and Rivers as Giants QB with Merriman on defense. I wonder if the Giants would’ve given Rivers the “don’t suck in the clutch” lessons he failed to receive in San D? I wonder if Eli would be looking like another Ryan Leaf?
This was probably obvious to everyone but me, but I just realized the other day that:
Giants swept the Cowboys, Cowboys swept the Eagles, Eagles swept the Giants
And to top off the perfect symmetry, everyone swept the Redskins.
Speaking of … How was Eli’s year? I fully admit to thinking he’s an overrated prick, but, to be honest, I don’t follow him all that much. Apparently he’s the 11th best QB based on passer rating, and the Giants’ season was nothing to brag about, but that’s about all I know.