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The weather is cooling off, but the NFL season is really starting to heat up.
Bring on Week 9.
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We’ve gone back to see where last season’s NFL playoff teams stood through Week 8 to compare against teams at the same point this season. It may give insight into what’s about to change, @Tagreenawalt writes.
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Follow our NFL TRACR rankings (Seahawks currently No. 1) and playoff probabilities (49ers currenty highest) throughout the season.
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There have been 3,257 instances all-time of an NHL team being scoreless & down by 4+ goals with under 3:00 left (reg or post).
Of those 3,257 teams, 3,256 could do no better than cut the deficit in half.
All except the @NHLJets on Tuesday.
They came all the way back to win.
Follow all the TRACR, expected wins and playoff probabilities throughout the NBA season.
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The @ChicagoBears are the first team in NFL history to beat both Super Bowl participants from the previous season in primetime in back-to-back games.
Rhyne Howard is No. 1 in WNBA DRIP, a player performance model which projects offensive, defensive and overall adjusted plus/minus.
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Follow our team-by-team TRACR rankings and playoff potential throughout the FBS season.
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Top 10 players in preseason DRIP, a player performance model which projects offensive, defensive and overall adjusted plus/minus.
How about the teams? Our TRACR Preseason Top 25: theanalyst.com/articles/coll…
The win projections are averages from the Opta projection model running thousands of 2026-27 regular-season simulations.
While some NFL quarterbacks have rediscovered their love for the deep ball, there are other signal-callers who have gotten more conservative this season.
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From Panthers at Packers to Bears at Seahawks, we span NFL Week 8.
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Follow the NHL season with TRACR, win-loss projections and playoff probabilities. The Avalanche have a slight advantage over the Hurricanes in TRACR.
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The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions for the first time.
In each of their final 18 games of 2026 (reg & post), the @Brewers:
allowed fewer than 5 runs
allowed fewer than 10 hits
struck out 5+ batters
That's the longest streak by any team at any point in a season in MLB history.
To provide an outlook on the 2026-27 men’s college basketball season, the Opta supercomputer has run thousands of simulations to compile a preseason TRACR Top 25.
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Follow all the TRACR, expected wins and playoff probabilities throughout the NBA season.
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