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WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball. To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 timesùso that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten times at each location. Rosters, rotations and stats are up-to-date through Saturday. ...

Week 4 NFL Fantasy Football Rankings

Posted: 29th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
This thorough analysis and statistical evaluation of every player and team in the NFL is part of a broader endeavor with FOXSports.com's Fantasy Football. Each regular season game is simulated 10,001 times.á This allows us to account for every player and statistical interaction in an NFL game.á Rosters and depth charts are as up-to-date and accurate as possible as of Tuesday of each week. Information on scoring appears at the bottom ...

NFL Week Four Power Rankings by WhatIfSports.com

Posted: 29th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
WhatIfSports.com utilizes its NFL football simulation technology to present the most comprehensive, deterministic, and unbiased ranking of all 32 teams. We simulated every possible matchup in the NFL 100 times and used the winning percentages from those nearly 50,000 games to evaluate every team. All 32 teams are ranked below with their average points for and against from the simulated games. All rosters and depth charts are up-to-date as of Monday night ...

Week Four NFL Picks By WhatIfSports.com

Posted: 29th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
Each Tuesday morning, we will preview every NFL game of the upcoming week. All of our NFL content, including our most recent power rankings and links to the preseason preview are located here. The inputs to the 10,001 simulations of each upcoming game are based on a rigorous analysis of each team that considers strength-of-schedule-adjusted team and player ratings and then makes modifications for injuries and depth at each position. ...

NFL Power Rankings: Week Three

Posted: 22nd September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
WhatIfSports.com utilizes its NFL football simulation technology to present the most comprehensive, deterministic and unbiased ranking of all 32 teams. We simulated every possible matchup in the NFL 100 times, and used the winning percentages from those nearly 50,000 games to evaluate every team. All 32 teams are ranked below with their average points for and against from the simulated games. All rosters and depth charts are up-to-date as of ...

Week 3 Fantasy Football Projections

Posted: 22nd September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
This thorough analysis and statistical evaluation of every player and team in the NFL is part of a broader endeavor with FOXSports.com's Fantasy Football. Each regular season game is simulated 10,001 times. This allows us to account for every player and statistical interaction in an NFL game. Rosters and depth charts are up-to-date and as accurate as possible as of Tuesday each week. Information on scoring appears at the bottom ...

Week Three NFL Picks

Posted: 22nd September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
Each Tuesday morning, we will preview every NFL game of the upcoming week. All of our NFL content, including our most recent power rankings and links to the pre-season preview are located here. The inputs to the 10,001 simulations of each upcoming game are based on a rigorous analysis of each team that considers strength-of-schedule-adjusted team and player ratings and then makes modifications for injuries and depth at each position. ...

Week 2 NFL Power Rankings

Posted: 15th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in NFL
9/15/2009 Rankings By Paul Bessire, WhatIfSports.com September 15th, 2009   WhatIfSports.com utilizes its NFL football simulation engine to present the most comprehensive, deterministic and unbiased ranking of all 32 teams. We simulated every possible matchup in the NFL 100 times, and used the winning percentages from those nearly 50,000 games to evaluate every team. All 32 teams are ranked below with their average points for and against from the simulated games. All rosters and ...

MLB Power Rankings 9/14/09

Posted: 14th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
` WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball. To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times – so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten times at each location. Rosters, rotations and stats are up-to-date through ...

MLB Power Rankings 9/14/09

Posted: 14th September 2009 by WhatIfSports.com in MLB
` WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball. To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times – so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten times at each location. Rosters, rotations and stats are up-to-date through ...