New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts Are One-Two in NFL Power Rankings

NFL Power Rankings

2008 Pre-Season Ranking (Updated 7/22/08)

By Paul Bessire, WhatIfSports.com

WhatIfSports.com presents its updated preseason NFL Power Rankings.

The site utilizes its award-winning football simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 32 teams in football each Monday during the regular season.

To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times.

For this run, all rosters and depth charts (e.g. Kellen Clemens is now likely the starter for the Jets over Pennington) are up-to-date through July 22, 2008.

The previous Power Rankings coincided with the 2008 NFL Season Preview (where the Patriots defeated the Cowboys in Super Bowl XLIII).

Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage (everyone plays everyone 100 times)

	Team	Change	Win Pct	PF/G	PA/G
1.	New England Patriots	0	82.1%	31.5	19.1
2.	Indianapolis Colts	0	76.2%	30.6	20.9
3.	Dallas Cowboys	0	72.3%	29.8	21.2
4.	Minnesota Vikings	+1	67.4%	24.7	18.4
5.	New York Giants	-1	66.5%	27.7	21.5
6.	Jacksonville Jaguars	+1	66.4%	26.6	21.0
7.	San Diego Chargers	-1	66.4%	25.9	20.4
8.	Cleveland Browns	0	65.7%	26.7	21.1
9.	Pittsburgh Steelers	0	62.3%	26.1	21.8
10.	Seattle Seahawks	0	59.7%	21.3	18.5
11.	Philadelphia Eagles	+2	56.3%	24.0	21.9
12.	Buffalo Bills	+2	56.3%	24.1	22.0
13.	Washington Redskins	-1	56.2%	24.4	22.1
14.	Green Bay Packers	-3	56.0%	25.0	22.9
15.	Carolina Panthers	0	54.1%	24.2	22.7
16.	San Francisco 49ers	+1	50.3%	24.7	24.7
	Team	Change	Win Pct	PF/G	PA/G
17.	New Orleans Saints	+2	45.0%	23.5	25.1
18.	Arizona Cardinals	0	44.7%	22.9	25.0
19.	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	+1	44.6%	20.9	23.1
20.	Tennessee Titans	+1	44.5%	20.0	21.6
21.	Houston Texans	+1	44.2%	22.0	24.1
22.	Cincinnati Bengals	+1	40.8%	23.8	27.2
23.	Denver Broncos	+2	39.7%	23.8	26.9
24.	Baltimore Ravens	0	39.3%	21.8	25.1
25.	New York Jets	-9	36.6%	20.6	25.0
26.	St. Louis Rams	0	34.5%	22.6	28.4
27.	Detroit Lions	0	34.0%	21.5	27.0
28.	Atlanta Falcons	0	32.6%	21.2	27.4
29.	Oakland Raiders	0	29.8%	21.7	29.3
30.	Chicago Bears	0	28.8%	18.7	26.5
31.	Miami Dolphins	0	27.1%	19.2	27.7
32.	Kansas City Chiefs	0	19.7%	17.9	29.9

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