The biggest news here this week may not have to do with anything on the field. I've changed the way the ratings are calculated, such that they will now average to 0 instead of 20. That makes it much more easy to tell who's performing above average and who isn't.
In week 8, all four games ended in upsets, which brought the teams closer together in their ratings. In weeks 9 and 10, the four teams who won all turned out to be the four best teams in action.
The relative lack of surprise is why this will be a pretty brief entry in this season's set of blog posts.
See? Everyone's kind of flatlining.
But there could be some shakeups this coming week. We've got two more high-vs-low matchups, but we'll also see two highly rated teams clash (Blue Bombers @ Eskimos) and two relatively low teams (Alouettes @ Argonauts; with Calgary heading into a bye, the Als are in the bottom half of the 8 teams in action in week 11).
The East seems pretty set, though we really have yet to see how much Jeremiah Masoli's injury will affect the Tiger-Cats in the long term. (That being said, they've already played two of their three games with their closest competition for the division title.)
It's the West, aside from the Lions, where we see much of the potential for some shakeups. With how low the home field advantage is set, those numbers on the right side of the table, in short, mean that we have 6 future games expected to be decided by less than 2 points, all involving any two of the Stampeders, Eskimos, Roughriders or Blue Bombers.
But hey, Touchdown Atlantic is coming up this weekend. Maybe a change in scenery is all the Argos need to catch a break.
With the Riders and Esks set to split their pair of games in the last two weeks of the season, their tie is broken on divisional record, putting them in Edmonton for their third game in a row against each other.
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