"Moneyball" is based on a book by the same name by Michael Lewis, which describes what happened when an actual team decided to base its decisions about ball players on new ways to think about the game, ideas developed by Bill James, the godfather of advanced baseball stats.
One of the many, many things James used to do in his Baseball Abstracts is look at six indicators to help predict whether a team would improve or decline in the next season. Today we'll use those indicators to see what they can tell us about the NFC East heading into the 2017 season.