Seahawks finish regular season #1 in DVOA

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-r ... oa-ratings

Seattle now looks like the best team in the league whether you are asking about the short term (recent weeks), medium term (the full 2014 season), or long term (since 2012). It's been a remarkable run of quality football.

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This is a surprise, Seattle was WAY back of #1 just a few weeks ago, but apparently the finish to the season was so dominant that they upped their score to 1st place at the very last instant.

DVOA measures team efficiency and is the best measure we have for determining how good a team really is. Seattle also finished #1 last year, and #1 in 2012 as well. This marks the THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR of being the NFL's best regular season team.

Only one other team (in their records) has finished #1 three times in a row before, The 1992-1994 Dallas Cowboys.

Seattle also finished with the #1 DVOA defense for the second straight year (and was #2 in DVOA defense in 2012). Only one other team, the 1993-1994 Steelers, had been back to back #1 on defense before (FO's metrics only go back to 1989).

Not that it would have been easy, but if Seattle had played the way they played the last two months all season, they would have likely gone down as the best team of all time.

kearly":1f5maff3 said:

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2014/final-2014-dvoa-ratings

Not that it would have been easy, but if Seattle had played the way they played the last two months all season, they would have likely gone down as the best team of all time.

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They are saving that for next year!

Great information!

And for the first time ever, Sea ranked #1 and Den ranked #2 for the third straight year. No other teams have done that even twice in a row. Looking back over the years, maybe Oakland and Pittsburgh might have done that back in the 70's. But if Dallas and SF didn't do it in the late 80's/early 90's, it's probably never been done before.