SeatownJay
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There's a new article up on fivethirtyeight.com about the playoffs and it focuses on Seattle. The basic point is that if Seattle repeats, they're in the discussion for best team ever.
The full article is here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/week ... s-edition/
Nate Silver":3jdpa2jh said:If the Seahawks win the Super Bowl again this year, they should be in the conversation about the greatest team ever — at least according to Elo. In the 32 percent of simulations we ran this week where Seattle won the Super Bowl, it finished with an average Elo rating of 1799. That would rank as the third-best end-of-season Elo rating since 1970, behind only the 2007 Patriots (who hold the top spot despite having been upset by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII) and the 2004 Patriots — and just ahead of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the 1989 San Francisco 49ers.
The full article is here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/week ... s-edition/