The following CompRatings poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Do the changes to the BCS system improve the selection of the bowl...
CompRatings@yahoogrou...
Dec 6, 2001 2:27 am
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the CompRatings group: Should BYU be included in the Bowl Championship Series? o yes o no To vote,...
CompRatings@yahoogrou...
Dec 6, 2001 2:31 am
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Okay - the 2001 season is over inc ollege football. Miami managed to crush Nebraska in the Rose Bowl. Given how the other BCS bowl games went (namely the...
The BCS system itself is to blame for the choice of Nebraska to play Miami in the Rose Bowl, not the computers. Before the bowl games were played, you could...
Hello all, I've just finished my ranking system and have put up a very crude website with the results I have so far. You can check out my rankings for the...
Robert B. Kiser
rkiser@...
Jul 9, 2002 7:48 pm
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... Hi Robert and welcome. This will be the first full college football season for the CompRatings mailing list. I hope we can have some lively and...
To me it's a terrible thing. If the idea is to get the best estimate for how strong a team is, how can you just throw out how badly they beat other teams? I...
Robert B. Kiser
rkiser@...
Jul 10, 2002 1:53 pm
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It's a very bad idea, IMHO. Any statistician will tell you that having more data is preferable to less, and what they've effectively done is limit the amount...
I would welcome any feedback on this; I'm a college football fan and follow the various ratings fairly close, but much more interested in a specific topic...
I suggested earlier the changes to the BCS as a topic for discussion. So here are my two cents. I think the changes are completely neutral in terms of what...
Pat, et al, I'm glad someone finally put down in words what I've been thinking about all off-season -- that is if the teams had been normalized based on their...
Okay, the first preseason poll is out and can be seen (among other places) at http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/rankings/coachpoll.html So, the question is, how do...
Beginning last year, I took the previous season's ratings and used that as a seed for the few 4-5 games, similar to what Jeff Sagarin does. The actual games...
... I think you should make the out of conference games a little more rigorous. I could show you a way based on the way that the colley matrix does it. It...
I think it's rather pointless to do a preseason and early season ranking like some do. Sure, you can use data from last year, but exactly what purpose does ...
Brad Kiser
rkiser@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:46 pm
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... Can you say a few more words about the Colley Matrix? What is it? What does it do? Are there any references you might suggest for further information?...
... The Colley Matrix is one of the components of the BCS system. It is designed and run by Wesly N. Colley and is printed in the Atlanta Journal and...
... I can help you on this point. (microsoft products are oh-so-intuitive . .) To get the inverse of a matrix in excel, first enter the matrix in an n by n...
I do use Margin of Victory. I am of the opinion that ignoring MOV is ignoring a very informative chunk of data, which is a statistical no-no. My MOV is capped,...
Brad Kiser
rkiser@...
Aug 4, 2002 8:49 am
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I'm working on baseball right now. I'm starting off with a model of wins and losses. I have found another problem with modeling wins and losses. Teams that...
I guess I'll put my two cents worth in this discussion. I cannot think the BCS actually believes they will have a better system because the MOV (Margin of...
I will publish a preseson ranking of college football teams based on last years finish and this years schedule. This is a new method I will use this season....
Does anybody here have any experience using game output functions. I'm working on a ranking system for baseball and every time I use the margin of victory, the...
Hello all. I just found this list, and this seems like a really interesting list. I have a question to start with. I currently run a fantasy football league...
OFFENSIVE YDS/PT = TOTAL YARDS/NO. PTS SCORED (<10 IS CONSIDERED GOOD)DEFENSIVE YDS/PT = TOTAL YARDS GIVEN UP/NO. PTS GIVEN UP (>15 IS CONSIDERED GOOD)MY...
PRNINJA@...
Oct 10, 2002 3:38 pm
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Welcome to our new members since the last post to the list! Here is a topic on which I am interested in peoples' oppinions. It seems to me that the the court...
The problem is that it's unfair to dictate how computer ratings authors should write our systems when their is no way to enforce those dictums upon the voters...
This is from Wayne Smith, who administers a mailing list for college hockey. While most peole on this list have primary interests in college football, I...
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