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This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!New England PatriotsOverall: 17 Title track: 2 Ownership: 20 Coaching: 2 Players: 2 Fan relations: 12 Affordability: 79 Stadium experience: 36 Bang for the buck: 37 Change from last year: +8If quarterback Tom Brady serving a four-game suspension to open the NFL season was supposed to get Patriots fans down, it didnt work. In fact, optimism for the team might be at an all-time high as the Patriots improved eight spots in ESPNs Ultimate Standings, after making an 18-spot jump the year before. The only nitpick for fans is the rising cost to attend a game.Whats goodPretty much everything, which is the way it goes with a team that is an annual Super Bowl contender. The Patriots No. 2 title track ranking is the best in the NFL, as are the No. 2 rankings for coaching and players. No NFL team ranked better in categories like consistently win more games than they lose, will win at least one championship in my lifetime and demonstrate a commitment to winning. Bill Belichicks work without Tom Brady at the start of the 2016 season has been widely lauded as exemplary -- no surprise, since hes been ranked No. 1 or 2 in the NFL in these standings for each of the past six years. After all, thats why they have a saying in New England: In Bill We Trust.Whats badThe Patriots rank 79th in affordability, which is an 11-spot improvement from the 2015 ultimate rankings, but still lags overall. Tickets are indeed expensive (the average price of $122 is cheaper only than the Giants), but one thing the Patriots often point out is that when Gillette Stadium opened in 2002, there were no personal seat licenses. So that contributed to some higher ticket costs. 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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum flew this week to Auckland, New Zealand, ahead of his boxer, Andy Ruiz Jr., taking on hometown hero Joseph Parker for one of the heavyweight titles vacated by Tyson Fury in September.But whoever wins Parker-Ruiz on Saturday (HBO, 9:35 p.m. ET/PT, same-day tape delay) at Vector Arena, Arum will return home to Las Vegas as a promoter of a heavyweight titlist for the first time since he represented then-titleholder Hasim Rahman a decade ago.That is because Arum and Parker promoters Dean Lonergan and David Higgins of Duco Events announced at a news conference Tuesday in Auckland that they had entered into a co-promotional deal on Parker, win or lose against Ruiz. Top Rank would take the lead on fights Parker would have in the United States as well as in China, where Top Rank has a growing business.They announced that the deal would also cover other Duco boxers as well, including up-and-coming Australian welterweight Jeff Horn (15-0-1, 10 KOs), 28, who takes on South Africas Ali Funeka (39-5-3, 31 KOs), 38, in the co-feature Saturday.Arum, who will celebrate his 85th birthday in Auckland on Thursday, said his decision to make the deal with Duco Events was not at all a signal that he believes that Ruiz, the underdog, will lose.Listen, having been in this business 50-plus years, I dont expect anybody to win a fight, particularly when its as close on paper as this one is, Arum said. I really think that the winner of this fight probably has the best chance to be the pre-eminent heavyweight, I really believe that.Parker has natural skills. Hes so big and he punches so hard, and Andy has the fastest hands that Ive seen on a heavyweight since Muhammad Ali.Arum has promoted Ruiz (29-0, 19 KOs), 27, of Imperial Valley, Californiaa, for his entire seven-year career and has had high hopes for him from the start.dddddddddddd Ruiz has a chance to become the first fighter of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight title, which Arum believes would make him a popular attraction on both sides of the border.But Arum also likes what he has seen from the 24-year-old Parker (21-0, 18 KOs), who often trains in Las Vegas not far from the Top Rank offices. Arum said he believes that Parker has what it takes to become a heavyweight star and that he can help him get to that level.But no promoter can make a fighter a star, Arum said. A fighter has to make himself a star. A promoter can only help by getting the right fights, getting the right publicity, but the idea that the promoter makes the star, as flattering as that is, is just not the case.If Parker does defeat Andy Ruiz then we will, together with Duco, perhaps have Parker fight in the United States, then come back here and then fight in China. Believe me, this [is] just the start.For Duco Events, the agreement with Top Rank will help it bring Parker and its other fighters to a bigger audience because of Arums worldwide connections and considerable power in the boxing business. He has close relationships with television networks and arenas in the United States and China.We have massive global ambitions for Joseph and for a number of other fighters, said Lonergan, whose company will still control any fights and revenue in New Zealand and Australia. Just because we come from New Zealand doesnt mean to say that we cant do it overseas. In fact, it encourages us to go overseas because our market is so small. ' ' '