Week 16 is over, and for your standard rankings, Peter has you covered somewhere on this site, but over on this side we're trying something a little different. These are the Ho Ho Holiday rankings, and we're making our list using MATH! And checking it twice, using MATH AGAIN! Power rankings are all about arguing about why they're wrong, and it's one thing to be subjectively wrong like Peter, and it's quite another to be objectively wrong. And so, in the spirit of being objectively wrong we have created C.A.L.C.U.L.A.T.O.R., the Comprehensive Analysis of League Competition Using Latest Analytics To Organize Rankings.

What goes into Calculator? Basically, every advanced stat I have available, in addition to data based on net point differential, and the current Super Bowl odds from our friends at FanDuel. I run some formulas to smooth everything out, create a unified scale, and here we go! You can see the rankings week by week here.

This week due to travel, wrapping, hanging stockings by the chimney with glee, chopping down trees, and running from the forest rangers, Paul is EXTREMELY light on free time and so pithy comments will have to take a week off, but the ratings can be seen below. And at this point we have a clear elite tier, and it absolutely contains the Packers, who have a 92.41 this week, just a hair behind the Vikings at 92.87. After seventh place Green Bay we have Denver with a 70.78. That's a huge difference! Detroit has regained the top spot followed by the Bills, the Chiefs, the Eagles, the Ravens, the Vikings, and the Packers. Those are your contenders.

We will, hopefully, be back next week in full, but for now please enjoy seeing how your favorite team stacks up based on SCIENCE.