You know it's getting serious - title belt dreams are coming into form - when people write me and say, "Yo, Commish, I gotta crunch some numbers, man. What can you give me?"

Lucky for all of you, Tim (@izontheprize) busted out his best Excel fu and delivered each team's picked percentage at this juncture.

In Tim's words, "I’m a Wharton Grad. I finally put the full force of my six-figure MBA behind this scintillating analysis."

WORTH IT, Tim. Worth it.

The numbers, followed by notes and a link to the data if you want to do more fun stuff with it:

This data only covers the 894 brave souls still alive in the race for BFIG's title belt. People have picked the Cleveland Browns this year. Those people are no longer alive.

Average pick volume is the average number of picks on that team (among those still alive) for each week it's been picked. So, Miami, which has been picked just once but was a majority pick that week, has a super high number here.

The inverse of average pick volume is more or less the uniqueness of that team's survival wins this year. The Raiders have somehow been picked in all five of their wins - tied with New England for most weeks picked - but average just over five picks in each win.

I quantified this notion with the "win leverage" stat, which is the average pick volume divided by the number of weeks picked. As you can see, Oakland is darn near 1.000.

I'd love for someone to use the win leverage stat to quantify people in the best (statistical) position to win it all. I believe you can just add the leverage scores for each of your seven picks thus far.

Want to do further analysis? Share anything cool that you make by posting a take on the SZN homepage, or emailing us (yo@theszn.com)! Here's the data in spreadsheet form.

Tim, the SZN community owes you a good 600 cans of Bud Light Lime. That'll get you a buzz for at least two football Sundays. Thanks, man!