SRS is your average point margin plus the average rating of everyone you played. That's circular on purpose — your rating depends on theirs and theirs on yours — so it's solved by repeating until the numbers stop moving. It splits cleanly into offence (OSRS) and defence (DSRS), and the two always add back to SRS.

Read it as points: +6.0 means about six points better than an average team on a neutral field. The difference between two teams' SRS is the projected spread. SOS is how tough the schedule has been, in the same points — it's literally your rating minus how you've actually done.

A positive SOS means you've played a harder schedule than average — so your record is worth more than it looks. Negative means the opposite. SOS LEFT is what's still coming.

Take what a unit did, then subtract how much easier or harder than average the opponent makes it for everybody else. The opponent's baseline deliberately excludes the game being measured — otherwise a team would be partly grading its own paper and a dominant offence would erase its own dominance.

Worked example: you throw for 8.1 a pop. That defence gives everyone else 7.5 against a league average of 6.5 — a full yard soft. Your adjusted mark is 8.1 − 1.0 = 7.1. Still good, just not the 8.1 the raw table was selling. Arrows show which way the schedule moved you.

League average: 9.74 yards per pass attempt, 6.25 per carry. Green beats league average, red doesn't. ▲ = the schedule was hiding how good they are; ▼ = the schedule was flattering them.

Lines are ranked per dropback, not on raw totals. A team that throws forty times a game will always allow more sacks than one that runs it, and ranking on the raw count would punish an offence for its playbook rather than its blocking.

League average: 6.2% of dropbacks sacked, 6.1% of opponent dropbacks sacked. Sacks allowed is a TEAM number in Madden's export — there is no per-lineman figure — so this rates the unit, and the gameplan names the weakest individual protector from ratings instead.

FINISHING is points per 100 yards gained — the honest version of a red-zone rate. Move the ball and not score and you're stalling somewhere. PYTH is the win rate your points scored and allowed say you deserve; LUCK is real wins minus that, in games. TO DIFF is turnover margin, the least repeatable thing in football — a big number there is a warning, not a trophy.

League finishing average: 8.11 points per 100 yards. Orange luck = winning more than the points say (expect a correction). Blue luck = better than the record, due for better days.