Jeff Sagarin's rankings

[jake14wl]

Meaningless stat. The only one that matters is 2-6.

[Kyle82]

I hate math

[Zithers]

SSR (Strength, Schedule, Regression) has us at 22nd

SRS (Simple Rating System) has us at 15th too i think

[Lilsmitty09]

i like turtles

[SCP]

I majored in marketing so this thread is a huge fail for me. Www.wcu.edu

[The_Mango55]

Meaningless stat. The only one that matters is 2-6.

That's the only one that matters in the past. But when you project future performance these stats are important, and it looks good for the panthers if they can just fix a few things.

[jake14wl]

That's the only one that matters in the past. But when you project future performance these stats are important, and it looks good for the panthers if they can just fix a few things.

Wrong. The best way to project the future is to look at the past, as history repeats itself.

[The_Mango55]

Looking at AND ANALYZING the past.

You can look at the past and see that the summer comes every year, but until you analyze why it happens its always just a guess, and you end up sacrificing virgins to make sure it does.

Analysis of the past season gives a generally positive outlook for the panthers.

[iamhubby1]

All I know is, if the O can catch up to the D, then the future looks bright. Thought it was going to be the other way around.

Even though our O has been shaky at best. It still scares people. Throw in the fact that our D actually does scare people. And that means we are on the verge of being one scary team. Sounds good to me.

[mwright350]

Looking at AND ANALYZING the past.

You can look at the past and see that the summer comes every year, but until you analyze why it happens its always just a guess, and you end up sacrificing virgins to make sure it does.

Analysis of the past season gives a generally positive outlook for the panthers.

I read this and all I could think was "so you're saying if we sacrifice a virgin we can go 10-6?"

Smartassery aside I agree - I actually like rankings that are based on something other than conjecture. I don't know that they're as applicable to the NFL as they are in other arenas because of the constantly changing nature of an NFL team but there's value in it for sure.