Here are the week 18 Bears power rankings from various sites around the web: ESPN.com: #6 (Last week: #6) Analysis, “The Bears better hope “Bad Jay Cutler” doesn’t show up for the playoffs.” SI.com: #7 (Last week: #6) Analysis, “I’ll grant you that a No. 7 ranking is fairly low for a No. 2 seed, [...]
Bears Backer
In what has become an annual tradition, we here at UmpBump cast our ballots for the Hall of Fame on the eve of the announcements of the voting for the real Hall of Fame. Voters can vote for anyone ever who has been retired from baseball for at least five years and is not already [...]
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Playoff time has arrived in the NFL and that means different things for different teams. In the NFL of decades past, the top seeds were overwhelming favorites and it would have been a shock if the top two seeds did not end up in their conferences championship games. Now in the NFL, the teams are so close that there are no more “shocking” upsets, obviously there are surprises, but the term “any given Sunday” is truer than ever in the [...]
Gack Sports
Here’s what you get when you run the BBR Rankings (and our old friend Maximum Likelihood) on every game, regular-season & playoff, that took place in the calendar year of 2010: Rank Team W L WPct Offense Rk Defense Rk Overall MLE Rk 1 Orlando Magic 67 31 0.684 3.16 5 -4.36 4 7.52 0.8600 [...]
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Here are the week 17 Bears power rankings from various sites around the web: ESPN: #6 (Last week: #8) Analysis, “Bears are tough to beat when they’re averaging 39 points in the past two games.” CBS Sports: #3 (Last week: #4) Analysis, “Jay Cutler now has four consecutive seasons with at least 20 touchdown passes. [...]
Bears Backer
Here are the week 16 Bears power rankings from various sites around the web: ESPN: #8 (Last week: #8) Analysis, “How many people had Chicago as their preseason pick to win the NFC North? Very few.” CBS Sports: #4 (Last week: #5) Analysis, “They showed Monday night that they can bounce back after a tough [...]
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