From the journal

Teambios:a team’sbiorhythm.

Teambios is the name the author of the Secrets Journal gave to his method for a whole team: rate each player on the roster for the day of the game, group them by position, and add them up. It lived in spreadsheets, and it was built for the NFL. This page describes it and sets its limits.

183 games, written down.

One game from the spreadsheet: 21 September 2017, week 3

Home

San Francisco

Head coach
2
Quarterback
5
Running back
6
Tight end
10
Cornerbacks
7
Wide receivers
17

Away

Los Angeles (Rams)

Head coach
6
Quarterback
7
Running back
7
Tight end
4
Cornerbacks
5
Wide receivers
6

Head coach, quarterback, running back and tight end are one person’s BioRating each, from −3 to 10. Cornerbacks and wide receivers are the sum over the group. The figures are a record of birth dates and a calendar date. The sheet drew a conclusion from them that this page does not.

How a team figure was built

  1. Take the roster as it will stand on the day: starters and the coach, with the week’s injuries taken out.
  2. For each person, compute the three cycles for the date of the game and reduce them to one BioRating, the same figure the app shows, from −3 to 10.
  3. Group the ratings by position: the head coach, the quarterback, the running back and the tight end as single figures; the cornerbacks and the wide receivers added together, since several play at once.
  4. Set the two teams’ figures side by side, and keep the game only if the gap between them is wide. Where the teams were close the author recorded nothing, following his own law of initial value.

The spreadsheet carried thirty or so further columns, each a different way of weighting the positions, and the author kept the ones he found useful and dropped the rest. He also kept a second sheet for the weeks of the year that fell in particular phases of the moon, a thread of the journal we record and do not pursue.

What it recorded

The published spreadsheet covers 183 NFL games across the 2017, 2018, 2023 seasons, each with both rosters rated for the day. We have transcribed the ratings and published them as a table on the spreadsheet page, so the record is readable without a spreadsheet program. The pandemic seasons were left out of the author’s own testing because rosters changed too often to rate.

Which cycle mattered most, in the journal

The emotional cycle first, in every sport. Professional athletes train hard on every team, so the author found the physical cycle told him little at that level; what he watched was mood and steadiness. The intellectual cycle he weighted for the positions that think for the team, the quarterback above all. In basketball he looked for the emotional cycle positive together with one of the other two, which is the pattern his career-highs tally had suggested.

What Teambios is not

It is not an app, and it never was. The legacy site described Teambios as forthcoming for several years; it was not released, and it is not planned. BioCalendar does not rate teams, compare rosters or select games, and nothing in it will.

It is not evidence that the cycles work. Thirty columns tuned to a few seasons of games will always fit those seasons; whether they would fit the next is the question a method has to answer, and the studies that asked it of biorhythm theory found nothing. The author believed otherwise, and said so in the strongest terms. We keep his method as a record of his thinking and claim no more for it.

The address of this page is the one the old site used, and it names a use we do not offer. We kept the address so that links to it still work; the word is the old page’s, not ours.

The records