See here for last year's predictions and results. I think I feel less confident this year than I did in 2024.
Forest
Silver
Orange
Pink
White
Black
Carolina
Maroon
Atomic
Kelly
Navy
Red
Lime
Gold
Yellow
Purple
Here are the preseason rankings according to my friend Oliver's Elo-based model1 (also discussed in the linked post).
His method has advantages2 over my method3, but also has some disadvantages—the big one being that the model knows nothing about players who haven't played in the league before, while I often know a fair number of them.
1
I didn’t use his predictions in making my own
2
Mainly that it can crunch an inhuman amount of data!
3
Which is just looking at the rosters and seeing how I feel about them
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