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SOS does not really matter I am thinking after having thought it through. The fact is if you go "15-1" you not only have obliterated your opponents, but you have also obliterated your own "SOS" stat.
The things that matter that are not captured by "SOS":
-When you played the Steelers, was Ben in or out?
-When you played Denver, was it home or away?
-When you played Oakland, was Carr in or out?
These are harder to quantify without just doing deeper data analysis. This thread has actually convinced me that SOS is not an important stat.
Nothing that happened in any game matters for any other game. The fact that the Pats got to play Pitt without BR doesn't mean anything now. It only meant something for that game.
I'm thinking of working on something this off-season that will incorporate all of those things you mentioned into a more accurate evaluation.
The rankings I used for my list in post #14 came by taking 7 power rankings, throwing out the high and the low and using the average for each team. Right now those rankings are as accurate as they can be.