The New Orleans Saints are the big risers in this week's Football Outsiders DVOA ratings. The top three remain the same from last week, even though Baltimore, New England, and San Francisco all saw their ratings go down. (For Baltimore and New England, this was related to changes in opponent adjustments, not bad games of their own.) New Orleans moves up from No. 5 to No. 4 in full-season DVOA. The Saints were already No. 2 last week in weighted DVOA but their weighted rating goes up over five percentage points this week.
This is the first week where a game (Week 1) has fully fallen out of the weighted DVOA formula, and so the differences between full-season and weighted DVOA are getting bigger.