2008 Final Efficiency Rankings

The ratings are listed below in terms of generic win probability. The GWP is the probability a team would beat the league average team at a neutral site. Each team's opponent's average GWP is also listed, which can be considered to-date strength of schedule, and all ratings include adjustments for opponent strength.

Offensive rank (ORANK) is offensive generic win probability which is based on each team's offensive efficiency stats only. In other words, it's the team's GWP assuming it had a league-average defense. DRANK is is a team's generic win probability rank assuming it had a league-average offense.

GWP is based on a logistic regression model applied to current team stats. The model includes offensive and defensive passing and running efficiency, offensive turnover rates, and team penalty rates. A full explanation of the methodology can be found here. This year, however, I've made one important change based on research that strongly indicates that defensive interception rates are highly random and not consistent throughout the year. Accordingly, I've removed them from the model and updated the weights of the remaining stats.

RANK	TEAM	LAST WK	GWP	Opp GWP	O RANK	D RANK
1	CAR	1	0.79	0.55	4	6
2	PHI	2	0.77	0.52	11	2
3	PIT	3	0.75	0.53	20	1
4	ATL	4	0.73	0.54	3	17
5	SD	5	0.72	0.53	1	10
6	NYG	6	0.69	0.53	2	13
7	NO	8	0.68	0.55	5	19
8	IND	12	0.68	0.49	7	15
9	TEN	7	0.67	0.46	15	4
10	BAL	11	0.67	0.52	17	3
11	MIA	9	0.64	0.44	6	20
12	WAS	10	0.63	0.51	12	11
13	DAL	14	0.59	0.53	16	8
14	TB	13	0.58	0.55	19	9
15	CHI	15	0.57	0.51	22	7
16	NE	16	0.57	0.47	13	24
17	GB	17	0.54	0.51	14	18
18	MIN	19	0.53	0.52	23	5
19	ARI	18	0.52	0.50	9	23
20	DEN	20	0.48	0.50	8	27
21	HOU	22	0.45	0.50	10	28
22	NYJ	21	0.45	0.45	24	12
23	BUF	24	0.34	0.44	27	22
24	SEA	28	0.34	0.47	30	14
25	OAK	27	0.33	0.56	29	16
26	JAX	23	0.32	0.50	18	30
27	KC	26	0.31	0.53	21	26
28	CIN	29	0.30	0.55	32	21
29	SF	25	0.29	0.49	25	25
30	CLE	30	0.20	0.57	28	29
31	STL	31	0.18	0.52	26	31
32	DET	32	0.12	0.57	31	32

To-date efficiency stats below. As always, click on the headers to sort.

TEAM	OPASS	ORUN	OINTRATE	OFUMRATE	DPASS	DRUN	DINTRATE	PENRATE
ARI	7.1	3.5	0.024	0.028	6.5	4.0	0.025	0.39
ATL	7.4	4.4	0.025	0.015	6.0	4.9	0.018	0.29
BAL	6.0	4.0	0.028	0.025	5.1	3.6	0.049	0.40
BUF	5.9	4.2	0.031	0.034	6.3	4.3	0.020	0.28
CAR	7.3	4.8	0.029	0.014	5.7	4.4	0.022	0.32
CHI	5.5	3.9	0.027	0.016	5.9	3.4	0.035	0.29
CIN	4.3	3.6	0.029	0.027	6.3	3.9	0.024	0.30
CLE	4.6	3.9	0.041	0.024	7.1	4.5	0.052	0.35
DAL	6.6	4.3	0.037	0.032	5.3	4.2	0.016	0.49
DEN	7.1	4.8	0.029	0.019	7.0	5.0	0.012	0.37
DET	5.3	3.8	0.037	0.036	7.9	5.1	0.009	0.38
GB	6.6	4.1	0.024	0.023	6.0	4.6	0.042	0.49
HOU	7.3	4.3	0.036	0.028	6.9	4.5	0.025	0.34
IND	6.8	3.4	0.021	0.010	5.9	4.2	0.031	0.32
JAX	5.8	4.2	0.024	0.021	7.3	4.0	0.028	0.42
KC	5.4	4.8	0.030	0.022	7.0	5.0	0.025	0.32
MIA	7.0	4.2	0.014	0.017	6.2	4.2	0.033	0.34
MIN	6.0	4.5	0.038	0.028	6.0	3.3	0.023	0.35
NE	6.1	4.4	0.021	0.016	6.4	4.1	0.030	0.25
NO	7.7	4.0	0.028	0.018	6.4	4.2	0.029	0.39
NYG	6.1	5.0	0.020	0.017	5.8	4.0	0.034	0.42
NYJ	5.9	4.7	0.043	0.024	6.1	3.7	0.024	0.28
OAK	5.2	4.3	0.026	0.033	6.4	4.7	0.034	0.42
PHI	6.2	4.0	0.026	0.015	5.1	3.5	0.029	0.31
PIT	5.9	3.7	0.030	0.026	4.3	3.3	0.038	0.41
SD	7.7	4.1	0.023	0.017	6.3	4.0	0.025	0.38
SF	6.0	4.0	0.037	0.043	6.1	3.8	0.022	0.37
SEA	5.1	4.2	0.032	0.021	6.9	4.2	0.016	0.30
STL	5.2	4.0	0.037	0.023	7.3	4.9	0.027	0.37
TB	6.1	4.1	0.023	0.020	5.9	4.3	0.046	0.42
TEN	6.1	4.3	0.020	0.019	5.2	3.7	0.035	0.43
WAS	5.5	4.4	0.012	0.020	5.8	3.8	0.025	0.33
Avg	6.1	4.2	0.028	0.023	6.2	4.2	0.028	0.36