NFL Power Rankings

The Dallas Cowboys showed a lot of grit last Sunday in Pittsburgh and are definitely a legitimate Super Bowl contender. In Dak the Cowboys trust and even Tony Romo has conceded the starting quarterback role to the young buck.

The rankings are shown below. At least the 49ers are no longer the bottom dwellers by almost knocking off the Cardinals! I wonder when the Cardinals and Eagles will revert back to the mean. Their rankings seem lofty but the correlation coefficient between the GE rankings and win percentage is 0.78 or otherwise 60% of the variance for NFL win percentage can be explained by the GE rankings.

Rank Team GE #

1 DAL 1.68

2 PHI 1.29

3 ARI 1.27

4 KC 1.16

5 MIN 1.09

6 OAK 0.96

7 BAL 0.96

8 NE 0.95

9 DEN 0.86

10 ATL 0.82

11 BUF 0.77

12 SEA 0.54

13 NO 0.49

14 WAS 0.46

15 SD 0.12

16 TEN 0.12

17 CIN 0.07

18 PIT -0.06

19 GB -0.26

20 MIA -0.26

21 DET -0.27

22 CAR -0.44

23 TB -0.49

24 LA -0.63

25 IND -0.77

26 HOU -0.78

27 NYG -0.85

28 CHI -1.05

29 NYJ -1.49

30 JAX -1.59

31 SF -2.26

32 CLE -2.38