It is one of the sports bar debates that gets fan bases riled up from the minute the NFL releases the schedules each year. Who has the most demanding and weakest schedule?

One of my frustrations as a fan through the years is that the debate rages on throughout the season, but the analysis we use is largely based on preseason rankings of how strong we think every team will be throughout the season.

Even as advanced analytics have come into the game, with measures like ESPN’s Football Power Index, the why behind the stats is hard for most average fans to decipher. So we took on a little endeavor: to create a new fluid measure of each team’s immediate road ahead that we call the Next 5 Index.

We’re not looking to get too nerdy here. The first thing we did was create an UberRank number f

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