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Sterling Net Point Power Rankings™ Wk 12 & The Bias+ Reports™ Wk 13 NFL 2024_25

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 Sterling Net Point Power Rankings™ Wk 12 The Bias+ Reports™ Wk 13 NFL 2024_25

NFL Intriguing Game of the Week Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Chargers

NFL Intriguing Game of the Week Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Chargers Bias+ Score 4.2 favors Los Angeles Chargers By Barry Sterling Mitchell My ‘Intriguing’ game of the week is Ravens versus Chargers Monday Night. The initial point of intrigue for me was not really the sibling coaching matchup. That came when my cohost on Ben and Barry on Football reminded me that this was going to be an Har-Bowl.  Before that, I was looking at the top scoring defense in the league, the LA Chargers at the time only allowing 14.5 points per game going up against Baltimore Ravens team who’s ranked second in scoring putting up 30.4 points per game.   However, the main point with me, again this is the Sterling Net Point Power Rankings , when we look at things from the ranking perspective many times we see Ranking Differential.  Ranking Differential? That’s when you’re looking at the rankings for Points For (PF) and the Points Against (PA) and you see a large difference between wher...

The Intriguing Game of the Week NFL Week 9 2024_25

  NFL Intriguing Game of the Week Denver Broncos 5-3-0 @ Baltimore Ravens 5-3-0 Bias+ Score 6.5 favors Broncos By Barry Sterling Mitchell When there are when there are about 5 or more games that could qualify as an intriguing game, I generally go to the games with the smallest bias plus. The implication of the small bias plus is that these two teams are closely matched generally that’s when I look for coaching matchups as well as unit matchups. But first let’s look at the numbers starting with the Ravens. Ravens coming to this matchup ranked 12 th and average net points at +4 point this has been enough to get Quarterback Lamar Jackson’s name in the MVP The challenge with the Ravens the Ravens is on the defensive side of the ball where they are ranked 26 th allowing 26.1 points per game. The saving and did I mention Lamar Jackson as MVP Baltimore is scoring an average of 30.3 points per game. So the fact that they are ranked 12 th in average net points becomes clear w...