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Monday, January 6, 2020

NHL power rankings for start of January

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 St. Louis (3-3)

2 Washington (2-1)

3 Boston (1-5)

SECOND TIER

4 NY Islanders (4-4)

5 Pittsburgh (13-6)

6 Colorado (7-2)

7 Toronto (19-17)

8 Dallas (10-8)

9 Carolina (11-7)

10 Vegas (16-12)

11 Philadelphia (6-14)

12 Vancouver (15-21)

13 Florida (14-22)

14 Tampa Bay (24-20)

15 Buffalo (20-13)

16 Calgary (17-10)

17 Arizona (8-9)

18 Minnesota (22-15)

19 Winnipeg (9-11)

20 NY Rangers (18-18)

21 Montreal (21-19)

22 Edmonton (5-16)

23 Columbus (25-26)

24 Nashville (23-24)

25 Chicago (27-26)

26 San Jose (12-23)

27 Ottawa (29-27)

28 Anaheim (26-25)

29 Los Angeles (28-29)

30 New Jersey (30-30)

THIRD TIER

31 Detroit (31-31)

BIGGEST RISERS: Toronto (10 spots), Florida and Vancouver (9 spots), Tampa Bay (6 spots), Columbus (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Arizona and Winnipeg (8 spots), Calgary and Edmonton (6 spots), Colorado (4 spots), Anaheim, Minnesota, Philadelphia and San Jose (3 spots)

RANKINGS BY DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF TEAMS, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 METROPOLITAN 13

2 CENTRAL 14.43

3 ATLANTIC 16.38

4 PACIFIC 20

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 EAST 29.38

2 WEST 34.43

NBA power rankings for start of January

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Milwaukee (2-2)

SECOND TIER

2 LA Lakers (1-1)

THIRD TIER

3 Denver (4-9)

4 Miami (5-4)

5 Boston (6-6)

6 LA Clippers (7-5)

FOURTH TIER

7 Houston (10-10)

8 Toronto (3-8)

9 Utah (12-12)

10 Dallas (9-7)

11 Philadelphia (8-3)

12 Indiana (11-11)

FIFTH TIER

13 Oklahoma City (19-18)

14 Brooklyn (14-13)

SIXTH TIER

15 San Antonio (23-20)

16 Portland (20-22)

17 Orlando (18-15)

18 Phoenix (16-14)

19 Chicago (15-23)

20 Memphis (25-24)

21 Charlotte (21-21)

22 Minnesota (13-19)

23 Sacramento (17-16)

24 Detroit (22-17)

25 New Orleans (26-26)

26 Cleveland (27-28)

27 Washington (24-25)

SEVENTH TIER

28 New York (29-29)

29 Golden State (30-30)

EIGHTH TIER

30 Atlanta (28-27)

BIGGEST RISERS: Denver and Portland (6 spots), Oklahoma City and San Antonio (5 spots), Chicago and Memphis (4 spots), Houston and Utah (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Philadelphia (8 spots), Detroit and Sacramento (7 spots), Phoenix (4 spots), Dallas and Minnesota (3 spots)

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 WEST 228

2 EAST 247

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019 NFL final power rankings and final FDH UQB ratings

By Rick Morris

NOTE: Rankings from the start of the season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Baltimore (23-10-8-6-14-20-18-14-13-7-5-5-3-1-1-1)

2 New Orleans (13-6-19-9-3-2-2-2-3-3-4-4-4-3-3-2)

3 San Francisco (15-15-13-10-8-6-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-2-2-6)

4 Kansas City (3-3-2-2-2-3-8-8-9-9-10-8-9-7-4-3)

5 Green Bay (6-5-4-4-6-5-5-4-4-5-3-3-6-8-5-4)

6 Seattle (14-12-6-16-17-7-4-11-12-11-7-6-5-5-6-5)

7 Houston (12-17-14-7-10-9-6-6-6-4-6-10-8-6-10-9)

SECOND TIER

8 New England (2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-4-7-7)

9 Buffalo (29-22-18-13-18-16-16-13-14-14-18-15-10-10-12-10)

10 Minnesota (16-8-9-8-11-13-9-9-8-10-8-7-7-9-8-8)

11 LA Rams (4-4-3-3-7-10-13-10-10-12-14-11-13-12-9-11)

12 Tennessee (18-9-15-19-12-17-23-22-18-22-16-16-11-11-11-14)

13 Philadelphia (1-2-5-12-4-4-10-15-11-13-11-14-15-17-18-16)

14 Tampa Bay (25-25-23-26-23-23-24-24-26-26-24-26-24-19-15-12)

15 Atlanta (10-19-10-17-22-24-28-28-28-28-27-23-25-25-23-20)

16 Denver (19-23-25-27-28-27-25-25-23-19-20-25-26-21-16-19)

17 Dallas (11-11-7-5-5-11-14-7-7-8-12-12-14-14-19-15)

18 Pittsburgh (7-14-21-23-24-28-26-26-24-17-13-17-18-15-13-13)

19 Chicago (9-16-17-18-9-12-12-16-19-24-19-22-20-16-14-17)

20 New York Jets (21-30-31-31-31-31-29-29-29-31-29-24-21-27-26-27)

21 Indianapolis (17-18-12-11-20-8-7-5-5-6-9-9-12-13-17-18)

THIRD TIER

22 Jacksonville (22-21-22-21-21-21-21-21-17-20-21-21-23-24-25-21)

23 Oakland (28-28-28-28-27-22-20-20-20-16-15-13-16-18-20-23)

24 LA Chargers (8-7-11-15-16-18-22-23-25-18-22-20-22-23-22-22)

25 Arizona (30-24-26-25-26-25-17-18-22-23-26-28-27-28-28-25)

26 Cleveland (5-13-16-20-13-19-19-19-21-25-23-19-17-22-21-26)

27 Miami (32-32-32-32-32-32-32-32-32-30-28-29-29-26-27-28)

28 Carolina (20-20-24-22-19-14-11-12-15-15-17-18-19-20-24-24)

FOURTH TIER

29 New York Giants (31-31-30-24-25-26-27-27-27-27-30-30-31-32-32-30)

30 Detroit (24-27-20-14-15-15-15-17-16-21-25-27-28-29-29-29)

31 Washington (27-29-29-29-29-29-30-30-30-29-31-31-30-30-30-31)

32 Cincinnati (26-26-27-30-30-30-31-31-31-32-32-32-32-31-31-32)

BIGGEST RISERS: New York Jets (7 spots), Atlanta (5 spots), Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Pittsburgh (5 spots), Carolina (4 spots), Indianapolis (3 spots)

DIVISIONAL RANKINGS (the lower the number, the higher the ranking):

1 NFC WEST 45

2 NFC SOUTH 59

3 AFC SOUTH 62

4 AFC EAST 64

5 AFC WEST 67

6 NFC NORTH 74

7 AFC NORTH 77

8 NFC EAST 90

CONFERENCE RANKINGS:

1 NFC 268

2 AFC 270

Our Ultimate Quantitative Baseline (UQB) statistic simply adds together the ranking of 13 different indexes: The FDH Lounge power rankings listed above, strength of schedule based on our power rankings, a metric combines the power rankings with impressiveness of victories based on strength of schedule, offensive yards gained, offensive passing yards, offensive rushing yards, defensive yards allowed, defensive passing yards, defensive rushing yards, DVOA, Offensive DVOA, Defensive DVOA and Special Teams DVOA. The lower the number, the better each team did. The yardage stats can be found here and the DVOA stats can be found here.

TOP TIER Total

1 San Francisco 80

2 Baltimore 94

3 New Orleans 106

SECOND TIER Total

4 New England 131

5 Kansas City 145

THIRD TIER Total

6 LA Rams 161

7 Tampa Bay 164

8 Dallas 169

9 Seattle 170