Last updated July 30, 2026
Versus Sports Simulator rates every team, ranks them, and predicts games before they are played. This page explains what the numbers mean and what you get with and without a subscription.
We run a proprietary mathematical model over every completed game to assign each team a set of ratings. Those ratings drive the rankings, the game predictions, and the simulator.
The model weighs:
Ratings, rankings, predictions and simulations are all recalculated daily during each sport's regular and post season, so what you see is never more than a day old.
Every team gets four numeric ratings relative to its league — or to its division, in the case of college football and college basketball:
Ratings use an academic scale from 60 to 99, and each carries a letter grade so you can read a team at a glance without comparing decimals.
These two answer different questions, and the difference matters.
Performance describes what a team has already done — how well it has played against its particular set of opponents this season, based on wins, losses, and the quality of the team it beat or lost to.
Power describes what a team is expected to do next, assuming a neutral venue and typical conditions. Given two teams at a neutral site, the one with the higher Power rating is the expected winner.
A team can have a strong Performance rating and a middling Power rating if it has beaten weak opponents convincingly, or the reverse if it has played a brutal schedule.
Prestige is a rolling measure of a team's performance over time, usually across the past four or more seasons. A five-star team has consistently stayed in the top 20% of its league over that span. A one-star team has consistently been near the bottom. It describes program strength over years, not current form.
Team rankings show every team in a league ordered by rating, and they are free for every team in every league.
Conference rankings are provided for college football and college basketball; divisional rankings are provided for every other sport. These show the relative strength of each conference or division against the others. For college football, all conferences are ranked together, so you can see how FBS, FCS, D2, D3 and NAIA relate to one another in strength.
Every team has a summary page showing its ratings, letter grades, rankings, game results, and how it has trended over the season. These are free for every team in every league.
Predictions are published for the coming week and revised daily. Each prediction includes the projected winner, the predicted score, the points spread and the total.
Without a subscription you get a limited number of predictions. With a subscription, every prediction for every scheduled game is available for as long as your subscription is active.
The simulator plays out a matchup between any two teams, whether or not they are actually scheduled to meet. Choose which team is at home, or select a neutral venue — in every sport except MLB, the venue changes the predicted result.
You get a predicted final score plus a side-by-side comparison of both teams' ratings, rankings, statistics and superlatives. For college football, each team's ratings are shown relative to its own division, since the divisions barely overlap in play.
Without a subscription, the number of teams you can simulate with is limited. A subscription unlocks every team in every league and removes the cap on how many simulations you can run.
Always free:
With a subscription:
Versus Sports Simulator is a ratings and simulation service. We are not a sportsbook, and you cannot place a bet with us. Our predictions are estimates produced by a model, not guarantees of any outcome.
We are not affiliated with any league, conference, team, or collegiate organization.
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