Man vs. Metric: Who can take a Week 1 loss and become a playoff team?

Have you ever watched a game and thought: "That team is way better than its record suggests?" Or the opposite: "Geez, I cannot believe that team is unbeaten."

Of course you have. It's the eternal battle of eye test versus stat sheet or, as we're calling it, man vs. metric.

ESPN Stats & Information analytics writer Sharon Katz takes a run through some of the more debatable data, and then ESPN senior writer Mark Schlabach offers his take.

Let's just say they agreed to disagree ... but their conversation is worth reading.