What Would Wall Street Do?: Clarifying NFL Team Rankings

Hopefully this will serve as a useful explanation for how to use some of the financial rankings.

Let me repost the financial rankings side by side with the statistical rankings to better clarify how to use and read them both. I've highlighted the NO v. HOU game, a game in which the Box chooses NO ATS and suggests a double bet.

	Stat	Sharpe	Alpha	Beta
	Ranking	Rank	Rank	Rank
ARI	17	15	13	3
ATL	25	30	32	30
BAL	20	27	19	11
BUF	18	28	30	7
CAR	27	25	11	18
CHI	28	22	28	32
CIN	16	9	5	13
CLE	14	5	7	26
DAL	3	2	1	31
DEN	19	26	25	2
DET	22	8	6	22
GB	5	6	12	12
HOU	23	12	10	1
IND	2	3	3	25
JAC	7	16	27	23
KC	24	29	31	29
MIA	26	19	15	21
MIN	15	20	17	10
NE	1	1	2	4
NO	21	11	24	24
NYG	11	7	4	27
NYJ	29	24	14	14
OAK	31	23	9	6
PHI	12	14	22	20
PIT	4	4	8	17
SD	9	10	18	28
SEA	10	13	16	9
SF	32	32	23	15
STL	30	31	29	5
TB	6	21	26	19
TEN	8	17	20	16
WAS	13	18	21	8