NFL Team Ranking "The Total Score Method"

   Pro Football Ranking.com is a website devoted to NFL Total Offense and Total Defense Ranking only. This is an area of concern for many people, year after year, since in the past the only ranking has been the NFL version which is yards only. While this is an important statistic, it does not tell you very much about how your team is actually playing. This is demonstrated by the continued use of the term; “Bend But don’t break” which refers to a defense that gives up a lot of yards but not a lot of points. Another thing we hear a lot about is; “They move the ball well between the 20’s but can’t score“. This is why yards only may not be a good barometer of how your team is playing.

   In my previous 14 posts we discussed this problem and its solution. We built the PFR.com Total Offense and Total Defense Ranking method and looked at how easy it is to understand and follow on a weekly basis. If you have not read about this method, now would be a good time, you can find them all by following me on Twitter and here on Blogspot.com. You can find the links to these blogs also on the Pro Football Ranking.com home page.

   Today I would like to add another dimension to this ranking method.

Total Score NFL Team Ranking

   Pro Football Ranking.com is the only place on the web that has anything like this ranking method. Total Score Team Ranking is an extension of the PFR.com “NFL Offense and Defense Team Ranking” method. This ranking method simply is the sum of the Offense and Defense scores found on the Team ranking page and of course on the Division statistics Page. Since winning games requires both offense and defense by combining these scores it gives you way to see how your team is doing overall, minus special teams.

   Is your team a playoff caliber team? How do you know? In the past you looked at the win\Loss records, while this is nice because it will tell you if you are going to be in the playoffs, does it really tell you if your team can win in the playoffs? The answer is not really.

The PFR.com Total Score method is a very good way to see if your team is a playoff caliber team. Take a look at the past years Total Score Archive and you will see that this method is very good at predicting playoff teams.

   The Total Score Ranking method is fun to use when predicting weekly game winners. It is used on the Weekly Game Picks section on PFR.com. I will talk about this in a later post.

I said earlier that PFR.com is all about NFL Offense and Defense Ranking. I have now mentioned two ranking methods that are exclusive PFR.com and remember that we also use the NFL’s Yards only ranking method, shown on the Team Ranking page. That makes a total of three ranking methods used on this website, and I am not done yet.

   In my next post I will add two more ways to rank NFL offenses and defenses. Remember the all important, Points! If you think you can get this information just anywhere you need to read my next post!

  I hope you have read enough about Pro Football Ranking.com to peek your interest and maybe you have taken a good look. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment.