The NFL’s 100th season kicks off tomorrow night with two division rivals continuing their long tradition of playing against each other. We at PFF are excited to share our weekly power rankings with our readers throughout the season, powered by our own PFF ELO metric.
Like any ELO system, it adjusts the ranking of a team after each game based on what happened in the game and the perceived strengths of the team and its opponent prior to the game. As opposed to most other ELO systems, PFF ELO doesn’t use the final score to update the rankings. Instead, we compute what the final score should have been based on the player grades. Thus, the predictive power of our grades carry over to a strong…
