tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post1703545058536568318..comments2023-10-14T05:50:09.559-04:00Comments on Saurian Sagacity: The Official Blog for Inquisitive Florida Gators Fans: Initial Power RankingsHenry Louis Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-26204637517540840252009-11-03T16:18:58.929-05:002009-11-03T16:18:58.929-05:00I know it will all shake out in the end, but it...I know it will all shake out in the end, but it's a little hard to rank three loss teams--that means they have lost almost 40% of their games among the top 11 teams in the nation. I'm all for rewarding playing tougher schedules but... I'd like to see a bigger penalty for multiple losses built in so that each loss past the first counts off extra (or something).Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759513028364776662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-27836926220255092002009-11-03T09:43:07.109-05:002009-11-03T09:43:07.109-05:00cHRIS fOWLER SAYS THERE'S NO CLEAR-CUT NUMBER ...cHRIS fOWLER SAYS THERE'S NO CLEAR-CUT NUMBER ONE.Trader Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079028073096259737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-65080817659857567472009-11-03T07:52:07.504-05:002009-11-03T07:52:07.504-05:00Margin of victory is _not_ a red herring if you li...Margin of victory is _not_ a red herring if you limit the margin to 10 points. Anything more gets you nothing, anything less means you struggled.<br /><br />No coach (except ones like [NAME REDACTED]) is comfortable with a five-point lead so MOV of less than 10 means they could not put the game away.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11358377922588828437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-6679263064582889082009-11-02T20:40:10.811-05:002009-11-02T20:40:10.811-05:00Jams, I'm pretty sure some of them take into a...Jams, I'm pretty sure some of them take into account home/away/neutral, also when the game was played, and I know Billingsley has bonus points for holding an opponent to under 10, I'm not quite sure why this is allowed. Colley only takes W/L into account (and did so even before MoV was disallowed), with a very clean system (simple concept if you are comfortable with mathematics, he's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-80439219142281427982009-11-02T19:35:36.725-05:002009-11-02T19:35:36.725-05:00Amos,
I re-thought about using the modifiers for ...Amos,<br /><br />I re-thought about using the modifiers for offense and defense and decided it was too arbitrary on my part, despite having some statitical basis. Plus it didn't change much (top 10 was the same). So I just dropped it.<br /><br />Jams,<br /><br />I would say using SO and SD does take MOV into account, and I don't really have a problem with that.<br /><br />I think MOV is aMergzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13815816581678431340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-7798219166149800462009-11-02T19:16:26.387-05:002009-11-02T19:16:26.387-05:00re: Dan's comment... Does taking scoring offen...re: Dan's comment... Does taking scoring offense and scoring defense into account separately qualify as using margin of victory? I mean there's only a semantic difference between using average margin of victory itself and calculating average points scored and average points allowed and using them separately.<br /><br />And anyway, what are the BCS "computer" formulas even Jamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831794019607815076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-77111028374125120732009-11-02T17:49:53.530-05:002009-11-02T17:49:53.530-05:00Well the computer rankings would get better by sim...Well the computer rankings would get better by simply letting them take into account whatever they want to take into account (for instance MoV). Also getting rid of the Billingsley Report would help everything.<br /><br />Mergz, what happened to favoring defense over offense? I think you used 1.1 * SD and .9 * SO for a little while.<br /><br />I'm also kinda surprised to see Virginia Tech andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35816861.post-4628649131561071742009-11-02T16:08:37.359-05:002009-11-02T16:08:37.359-05:00Wouldn't it be nice if this simple-yet-effecti...Wouldn't it be nice if this simple-yet-effective formula was one of the formulae used in the BCS computer rankings? (Never understood why they went with those six, with no thought of adding/removing/changing it based on new info, etc.)<br /><br />- ShanoffDan Shanoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08126386161198401693noreply@blogger.com