What this is
A comparison of APR's Week 9 power rankings with ESPN's rankings for the same week of games. This acts as a sanity check (both ways) to see what teams are over- or underrated.
Only teams that are at least 9 positions apart are listed. The number in parentheses is the difference between APR's rank and ESPN's rank.
Teams ESPN likes more than APR:
- Buccaneers (+9)
- op. cit.
- Texans (+9)
- The Texans are 4-5, and have given up more points than any other team in the league, and are 1-4 in their last 5. That's not anywhere close to a good team.
- On the bubble:
- Falcons, Seahawks (+7).
Teams APR likes more than ESPN:
- Lions (-13)
- Maybe APR has the Lions overrated, but they are not the second-worst team in the league right now.
- Browns (-10)
- The keep playing good teams close, but coming away with losses. That's usually a coaching problem, isn't it?
- On the bubble:
- Titans are closest at (-6).
