East End Gridiron Championship

Click any column heading to sort by it; click again to reverse. Teams without a figure for a column stay at the bottom either way rather than sorting as a zero. The ⓘ beside a heading explains what that column measures. The Power Ranking heading links through to the full Power Rankings page — use the arrow beside it to sort.

Record

The league’s official overall record: the real head-to-head result plus this league’s bonus win or loss for beating or missing the weekly average score. The lines underneath break it into those two parts.

PF

Points For — every point this team has scored so far this season. The simplest measure of how good a team has actually been, before any opponent is involved.

PA

Points Against — every point this team’s opponents have scored against them. A high figure is as much bad fortune as bad play: nobody picks their opponents’ lineups.

Differential

Points For minus Points Against — how far a team has outscored its opponents across the season. The quickest way to separate two teams sitting on the same record.

Power Ranking

Michael’s own ranking, not ESPN’s. Every team is ranked in five categories — record, points scored, all-play breakdown, coach rating and optimal-points breakdown — and earns points for its place in each; the Power Score is the sum. Higher is better. The badge underneath is the move since the previous week. The heading links through to the full Power Rankings page.

Scoring Distribution

How many players a team’s points actually came from — spread across players, not across weeks, which is what Consistency measures. Only started players count, because bench points never counted toward the real score. A team scoring evenly across four starters reads 4.0; one reading 2.4 got its points from about two and a half people however many were in the lineup. The line beneath is the share from its two biggest scorers. Neither end is straightforwardly better — leaning on a star wins weeks and is one injury or bye from losing them.

Consistency

How steady a team’s weekly scoring is, as a 0–100 score. It measures the size of the week-to-week swing relative to what that team normally scores, so a high scorer is not punished for swinging in bigger absolute numbers. 100 would be the identical score every single week. A low score is a team you cannot predict.

Optimal Lineup Pts

What this team would have scored with perfect start/sit decisions every week — the ceiling the roster actually offered, whoever was left on the bench. Read it against Points For: a big gap is a strong roster being under-managed, a small one is a manager getting everything available out of theirs.

SOS (Played)

The average current Power Score of the opponents this team has already faced. Rank 1 is the toughest schedule. Not a prediction — it reads everyone’s form as it stands today, so it moves as other teams do.

SOS (Remaining)

The same average over the opponents this team has not played yet. Rank 1 is the hardest run left. It moves with everyone’s form too.

Luck

How many more games a team has won than its scoring deserved. Each week we ask how often it would beat the particular opponent it drew, given how much the two of them normally score. Add those up and you have the wins it should have had; Luck is the real number minus that one. +1.0 is a win they would not usually have got. −1.0 is a win they earned and did not get. Around zero means the results match the scoring. It needs three completed weeks before it means anything.