Your loser update: October 23, 2018.

NBA teams that still have a shot at going 0-82:

Chicago
Cleveland
Lakers
Oklahoma City

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I wanted to do some analytics on the NFL losers. Specifically, I wanted to get an idea (and perhaps express it in graphical form) of how many losers there were at various points in the season. Week 1 isn’t very interesting: there’s generally 16 losers out of 32 teams1. But week 2 and the weeks following are the ones where things become more interesting.

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This is an HTML file containing the loser data from 2009-2018. Year’s on the left, week is across the top. So for example, in week 1 of 2018, there were 15 teams that had a chance to go 0-16.

I tried graphing this in Excel, but wasn’t totally happy with the results I was getting. Perhaps someone with more experience in data visualization can do something better.

1 I say “generally” because there are exceptions. There was a tie in week 1 of 2018, which knocked two teams out of loser contention. In week 1 of 2017, one of the games was postponed due to a hurricane, which left those two teams at 0-0 and with the potential to go 0-16 that week, for a total of 17 possible losers.

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One Response to “Your loser update: October 23, 2018.”

  1. Infidel de Manahatta says:
    October 25, 2018 at 9:55 am

    Go Giants! Well, technically they didn’t lose Sunday! Yes it’s because they played Monday night but that’s just being picky.