Strength of schedule.

[jargomcfargo]

This probably falls squarely in the category of useless information, but allow me to amuse myself.

As of today, I took the record of the teams the Vikings have beat so far, and calculated their collective win percentage. It is 30%.
I then calculated the win percentage of the teams we will face the rest of the season collectively. It is almost 55%.

I did the same for the Packers, and the collective win percentage of the teams they have beat so far is 51%.
The win percentage of the teams remaining on their schedule is 52%.

Meaningless, or Not?

[Guest]

if GB plays KC without Mahomes and we play KC at KC with Mahomes, that’s significant. 

[Guest]

When you play teams and how injured they are is more meaningful, IMO.

[Guest]

After each Viking win so far, it's followed by the "but, that team kind of sucks" caveat, so I hope Mahomes does play.  Why make it easy?  Lets see how good this Viking team really is. 

[Guest]

Because of the composite record of a number of teams used, this doesn't have much meaning. It does indicate a tougher schedule ahead to some degree, but one would be better off to look at winning percentage of each team individually just before the Vikings play them.
I did find it interesting and wondered what those who bet on games would think of the stat.. 
Though the stat. shows a general trend it is misleading.

[Guest]

@HappyViking said:

After each Viking win so far, it's followed by the "but, that team kind of sucks" caveat, so I hope Mahomes does play.  Why make it easy?  Lets see how good this Viking team really is. 

He most likely won't be at 100% either if we do play him. That'll affect their game plan - they'll be doing everything they can to keep him upright in the pocket; that's where their focus will be as an offense. Could make them more one-dimensional.

I'd rather face Mahomes. A 100% healthy Mahomes is scary, but we need to start going up against the best and beating them.

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@jargomcfargo said:
Because of the composite record of a number of teams used, this doesn't have much meaning. It does indicate a tougher schedule ahead to some degree, but one would be better off to look at winning percentage of each team individually just before the Vikings play them.
I did find it interesting and wondered what those who bet on games would think of the stat.. 
Though the stat. shows a general trend it is misleading.

Why would you do that?  That seems like the worst way to measure it, as all your early season games have a horrible amount of small sample size problems.  In week 2, playing a great team that lost to another great team in week 1 horrible team is the same as playing the Dolphins, they're both infinitely bad at 0-1.