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"Radical" Russ's Super Bowl Rankings
My Super Bowl Rankings formula
solves what I consider to be an inherant flaw in traditional Super Bowl
standings. To me, I always thought it was ridiculous that a team
like the New York Jets, with a 1-0 Super Bowl Record, ends up ranked above
the Pittsburgh Steelers, with a 4-1 Super Bowl Record. Certainly
a team that has 4 SB wins should be considered better than a team with
1 SB win! Also, I found it unfair that a team like the Buffalo Bills,
at 0-4, should be ranked below the Philadelphia Eagles, at 0-1. Certainly
a team that has made it to four Super Bowls should be better than a team
that only made it to one!
My formula is simple:
For every Super Bowl win, a team gets three points. For every Super
Bowl loss, a team gets one point. For example, the Jets would get
three points, but the Bills would get four. To break ties, I use
the Super Bowl Points For and Points Against. I take the greatest
Super Bowl Point Differential (the 49'ers, at +99) and the least Differential
(the Broncos, at -81), and take the difference between the two (180) plus
one (181), and that gives me the Differential Factor. I then divide
the absolute value of the team's Point Differential over Least Differential,
and divide that by the Differential Factor, and that gives me a decimal
number between 0 and 1 (that's why I had to add 1 to the Differential Factor,
so the best team's decimal number wouldn't be 1.000). For those of
you into the math of it, the equation looks like this:
( SBWins * 3 ) + SBLosses + { [ PtDiff + ABS( MinPtDiff
) ] / [ MaxPtDiff + ABS( MinPtDiff ) +1 ] }
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