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ESPN.com writer- Ryan O'Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He's also the author of "Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution."
Sure, there's a historically exciting title race going on in the Premier League, but where else can you also get analysis about the race for, I don't know, seventh or the race for 16th place?
Nowhere -- except from Bill Connelly and Ryan O'Hanlon's recurring Premier League power rankings. Throughout the season, they've been updating their opinions of all 20 teams in England's top division and tracking the progress from one edition to the next. As we enter the home stretch of the final eight matches, ESPN's two statistical analysis gurus are back to set the stage for what should be an electric final few months.
Once again, they have each ranked all 20 Premier League sides, one through 20, and then combined their rankings to produce one master ranking. The criteria: who we think would win a match if any of these teams played each other on a neutral field in the near future.
The updated rankings are below, followed by some analysis of the most notable changes (or non-changes) from the previous edition of the rankings.