Sorry for the lateness. There was a tiny change in the NFL stats page code that broke my script and I wasn't able to get it fixed until late last night. But we're all ready now. Read this diary to know what this is all about and explain the stats.

Once again you'll have to scroll down because the site doesn't seem to like tables in diaries.

PPYA (Points Per Yard Aggregate) for Week 2:

PPYA Power Rank	Team	OPAPY	OPSPY	PPYA
1	San Diego	0.02017	0.08612	0.06595
2	Baltimore	0.01974	0.08411	0.06438
3	Chicago	0.01367	0.07258	0.05891
4	Cincinnati	0.04576	0.0795	0.03374
5	Atlanta	0.0159	0.04433	0.02843
6	Buffalo	0.03827	0.06569	0.02742
7	Indianapolis	0.06148	0.08195	0.02047
8	Seattle	0.03156	0.04959	0.01803
9	Jacksonville	0.03571	0.04933	0.01361
10	Dallas	0.05072	0.06377	0.01304
11	New England	0.04844	0.05761	0.00916
12	Arizona	0.0654	0.07063	0.00523
13	St. Louis	0.04847	0.05299	0.00453
14	Pittsburgh	0.04063	0.04444	0.00382
15	New Orleans	0.0718	0.07507	0.00327
16	Philadelphia	0.05271	0.05381	0.0011
17	Cleveland	0.06568	0.06366	-0.00202
18	Minnesota	0.054	0.05193	-0.00207
19	New York (A)	0.05831	0.05472	-0.00359
20	Houston	0.07008	0.06296	-0.00712
21	Denver	0.04027	0.03293	-0.00734
22	Carolina	0.048	0.03909	-0.00891
23	New York (N)	0.06427	0.05376	-0.0105
24	San Francisco	0.07437	0.06242	-0.01195
25	Washington	0.06805	0.03914	-0.02891
26	Kansas City	0.05776	0.02832	-0.02944
27	Tennessee	0.0725	0.04212	-0.03037
28	Green Bay	0.07287	0.04141	-0.03146
29	Miami	0.07407	0.04107	-0.033
30	Detroit	0.06646	0.02621	-0.04025
31	Tampa Bay	0.0536	0.00609	-0.04751
32	Oakland	0.09364	0.02062	-0.07302

The Colts got hurt by the points they gave up in the 4th quarter, dropping their defensive points per yard.

Buffalo?! Hm. Now that's interesting

Oakland is jut bad. Reallllly bad.

Highest Ranked Loser: #12 Arizona, lost to #8 Jacksonville

Lowest Ranked Winner: #24 San Francisco, beat #13 St. Louis

Negative Line: #16 Philadelphia: .0011 PPYA, #17 Cleveland -.00202 PPYA

Offensive Ranking:
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OPSPY rank	Team	OPSPY	yards gained rank	rank difference
1	San Diego	0.08612	(4)	(3)
2	Baltimore	0.08411	(24)	(22)
3	Indianapolis	0.08195	(2)	(-1)
4	Cincinnati	0.0795	(9)	(5)
5	New Orleans	0.07507	(10)	(5)
6	Chicago	0.07258	(7)	(1)
7	Arizona	0.07063	(16)	(9)
8	Buffalo	0.06569	(31)	(23)
9	Dallas	0.06377	(11)	(2)
10	Cleveland	0.06366	(29)	(19)
11	Houston	0.06296	(23)	(12)
12	San Francisco	0.06242	(6)	(-6)
13	New England	0.05761	(12)	(-1)
14	New York (A)	0.05472	(8)	(-6)
15	Philadelphia	0.05381	(1)	(-14)
16	New York (N)	0.05376	(3)	(-13)
17	St. Louis	0.05299	(18)	(1)
18	Minnesota	0.05193	(13)	(-5)
19	Seattle	0.04959	(17)	(-2)
20	Jacksonville	0.04933	(14)	(-6)
21	Pittsburgh	0.04444	(27)	(6)
22	Atlanta	0.04433	(5)	(-17)
23	Tennessee	0.04212	(22)	(-1)
24	Green Bay	0.04141	(15)	(-9)
25	Miami	0.04107	(21)	(-4)
26	Washington	0.03914	(25)	(-1)
27	Carolina	0.03909	(30)	(3)
28	Denver	0.03293	(19)	(-9)
29	Kansas City	0.02832	(20)	(-9)
30	Detroit	0.02621	(26)	(-4)
31	Oakland	0.02062	(32)	(1)
32	Tampa Bay	0.00609	(28)	(-4)

This highlights one of the drawbacks of this ranking. Baltimore's Offensive ranking of #2 (vs. their Offensive Yards ranking of #24) is probably due to their great defensive giving the offense very good field position and the offense taking advantage and scoring, driving up their points score per yard. I think the same thing is happenign with Buffalo. but a team should be rewarded in rankings for takign advantage of good field position.

Defensive Ranking:
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OPAPY rank	Team	OPAPY	yards allowed rank	rank difference
1	Chicago	0.01367	(5)	(4)
2	Atlanta	0.0159	(11)	(9)
3	Baltimore	0.01974	(1)	(-2)
4	San Diego	0.02017	(2)	(-2)
5	Seattle	0.03156	(4)	(-1)
6	Jacksonville	0.03571	(3)	(-3)
7	Buffalo	0.03827	(16)	(9)
8	Denver	0.04027	(15)	(7)
9	Pittsburgh	0.04063	(19)	(10)
10	Cincinnati	0.04576	(14)	(4)
11	Carolina	0.048	(28)	(17)
12	New England	0.04844	(13)	(1)
13	St. Louis	0.04847	(17)	(4)
14	Dallas	0.05072	(8)	(-6)
15	Philadelphia	0.05271	(20)	(5)
16	Tampa Bay	0.0536	(22)	(6)
17	Minnesota	0.054	(7)	(-10)
18	Kansas City	0.05776	(9)	(-9)
19	New York (A)	0.05831	(24)	(5)
20	Indianapolis	0.06148	(25)	(5)
21	New York (N)	0.06427	(29)	(8)
22	Arizona	0.0654	(26)	(4)
23	Cleveland	0.06568	(30)	(7)
24	Detroit	0.06646	(21)	(-3)
25	Washington	0.06805	(23)	(-2)
26	Houston	0.07008	(32)	(6)
27	New Orleans	0.0718	(12)	(-15)
28	Tennessee	0.0725	(31)	(3)
29	Green Bay	0.07287	(27)	(-2)
30	Miami	0.07407	(6)	(-24)
31	San Francisco	0.07437	(18)	(-13)
32	Oakland	0.09364	(10)	(-22)

The only thing to really talk abotu here is Indy's drop from last week's top ten ranking. I really think that 4th quarter hurt the Colts in the ranking.

Oh, and Oakland's D is horrible. They are giving up almost .1 points for every yard they give up.

Today's Games:
#27 Tennessee (-.03037) @ #29 Miami (-.033)
#9 Jacksonville (.01361) @ #7 Indianapolis (.02047)
#25 Washington (-.02891) @ #20 Houston (-.00712)
#28 Green Bay (-.03146) @ #30 Detroit (-.04025)
#19 NY Jets (-.00359) @ #6 Buffalo (.02742)
#22 Carolina (-.00891) @ #31 Tampa Bay (-.04751)
#3 Cincinnati (.03374) @ #14 Pittsburgh (.00382)
#3 Chicago (.05891) @ #18 Minnesota (-.00207)
#2 Baltimore (.06438) @ #17 Cleveland (-.00202)
#23 NY Giants (-.0105) @ #8 Seattle (.01803)
#16 Philadelphia (.0011) @ #24 San Francisco (-.01195)
#13 St. Louis (.00453) @ #12 Arizona (.00523)
#21 Denver (-.00734) @ #11 New England (.00916)
#5 Atlanta (.02843) @ #15 New Orleans (.00327)

I'll try to keep this updated by making the winner in bold, to see how well this holds up.

After the day games, PPYA is 8-6. Not so good, hm? A TON of road teams won this week. In fact, only four home teams won.

I am headed to the game today. I'm VERY worried about this game, especialyl given our injury situation. VERY VERY worried.