📈2026 NFL Odds Tracker and Elo Ratings🏈
Aggregated predictions, Elo rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
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Analytical but narrative -- blending the past and future of sportswriting
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The Week That Was (August 17-21, 2026)
A roundup of what I wrote, read, watched, etc. over the past week.
Back on track
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Are the Tigers Having the Most Confusing — and Secretly Consequential — Season Ever?
Bad enough to sell at the deadline despite elite underlying metrics, yet good enough to stay in the hunt anyway, Detroit is having one of MLB’s strangest and most consequential mediocre seasons ever.
International Football
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Seattle and Toronto Played an October Epic. A Year Later, They’re Sharing an Epic Drop-off.
Despite both still vying for the playoffs, the authors of one of the best AL Championship Series ever are now suffering a historic hangover.
Expansions and annihilations
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⚾ 2026 MLB Elo Power Ratings, Playoff Odds & Wins Above Replacement (WAR) rankings 📈
The following table is a list of MLB teams with their Elo ratings and their predicted wins throughout the 2026 season.
🏀 2026 WNBA Elo Team Power Rankings and Player Rankings 📈
Power ratings for every WNBA team and player this season.
The White Sox Are a Miracle
Just a few years after hitting rock-bottom and losing their once-promising core, Chicago has built back to respectability in record time — with a totally new group.
⚽ 2026-27 English Premier League Tracker 📈
Aggregating each team's market odds to avoid relegation, finish highly or win the 2026-27 EPL championship.
Chicago dreams, country schemes
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Russell Westbrook Collected So Many Stats, He Broke Them
Westbrook weaponized the triple-double to win an MVP and make NBA history. But he also made us rethink the value of the achievement that defined him.
We’ve solved nothing
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MLB's Trade Deadline Somehow Made Everything More Confusing
Rather than sorting contending buyers from selling pretenders, the opposite has happened, leaving a weird playoff race as crowded as ever.
🏁 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Rankings 🚗
Tracking the top drivers in the sport, all season long.