Sagarin Rankings

[angrybaldman]

Out what a difference a couple bowl games make (as of today):

1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Mississippi
4. Oregon
5. Mississippi St.
6. TCU
7. Georgia
8. Auburn
9. MSU
10. Baylor
11. Arkansas
12. LSU
13. Clemson
14. Florida St.
15. Kansas St.

Conference Rankings:
1. SEC West
2. Pac-10 South
3. SEC East
4. ACC Atlantic
5. Big Ten East
6. Big 12
7. Pac-10 North
8. ACC Coastal
9. Big Ten West

[Deleted]

Wow! That is sweet.

[skiodie]

That still way to high for the Big 12 We suck!!!!!!!!!!!

[keln]

Oregon is too low, FSU is too low, PAC-12 is too low, SEC East is waaaaay too high, and the ACC overall actually looks better after bowl games.

And him ranking the Bucks at #2 frightens me. I'll take it, but it frightens me.

[be3585]

What exactly are the sagarin rankings? Meaning, is it some kind of formula or is it just a person ranking teams?

[cwerph]

it is one of the computer polls that use to be used in the BCS formula (1 of 6 computer polls)

[keln]

Computer + Person's formula.

All computer rankings have a person's bias behind them. Not necessarily a conscious bias towards one conference or another, but towards certain kinds of stats. Computers have proven to not be very good at rankings, but that has less to do with computers and more to do with the formulae used.

And the formulae aren't entirely to blame either because they are trying to rank 128 teams, most of which never play one another, so metrics are used that aren't necessarily meaningful.

[Deleted]

Yea computers have always been based on a Humans formula programmed in. Thank goodness humans nullified the computers during the bcs. I hope humans always decide on this.

[angrybaldman]

Updated for yesterday's bowl games:

1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Ohio State
4. Georgia
5. Mississippi
6. TCU
7. Mississippi St.
8. Auburn
9. Michigan St.
10. Baylor
11. Arkansas
12. LSU
13. Clemson
14. FSU
15. KSU

1 SEC-WEST (A) = 91.65 91.60 ( 1) 7 91.60 ( 1)
2 PAC-12(SOUTH) (A) = 80.67 79.18 ( 2) 6 79.89 ( 2)
3 SEC-EAST (A) = 79.43 78.78 ( 3) 7 79.26 ( 3)
4 PAC-12(NORTH) (A) = 75.78 76.93 ( 4) 6 76.21 ( 5)
5 ACC-ATLANTIC (A) = 75.21 74.60 ( 8) 7 75.01 ( 7)
6 BIG 12 (A) = 75.11 75.23 ( 6) 10 75.15 ( 6)
7 BIG TEN-EAST (A) = 75.05 76.64 ( 5) 7 76.62 ( 4)
8 ACC-COASTAL (A) = 74.60 74.84 ( 7) 7 74.72 ( 8)
9 BIG TEN-WEST (A) = 73.22 72.89 ( 9) 7 72.98 ( 9)

[angrybaldman]

As of yesterday's games:

1. TCU
2. Alabama
3. Ohio State
4. Georgia
5. Oregon
6. Baylor
7. MSU
8. Auburn
9. Miss
10. Miss St.
11. Arkansas
12. Georgia Tech
13. Clemson
14. FSU
15. KSU

1 SEC-WEST (A) = 89.51 89.65 ( 1) 7 89.58 ( 1)
2 PAC-12(SOUTH) (A) = 79.93 78.46 ( 2) 6 79.10 ( 2)
3 SEC-EAST (A) = 79.01 78.35 ( 3) 7 78.84 ( 3)
4 BIG 12 (A) = 76.17 76.68 ( 4) 10 76.29 ( 5)
5 ACC-ATLANTIC (A) = 75.51 74.92 ( 8) 7 75.33 ( 8)
6 PAC-12(NORTH) (A) = 75.33 76.49 ( 6) 6 75.78 ( 6)
7 ACC-COASTAL (A) = 75.11 75.56 ( 7) 7 75.33 ( 7)
8 BIG TEN-EAST (A) = 75.09 76.68 ( 5) 7 76.33 ( 4)
9 BIG TEN-WEST (A) = 73.41 73.05 ( 9) 7 73.16 ( 9)

[victor2111]

Georgia tech won at georgia and beat down miss st on neutral field, but behind both.

Gt has one more win than both teams also(11-3 vs 10-3)

Stupid rankings

[keln]

Sagarin needs to fix his rankings. Big time.

Surely cold hard facts compute?

[angrybaldman]

After yesterday's games:

1. TCU
2. Ohio State
3. Oregon
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Michigan State
7. Baylor
8. Miss
9. Miss St
10. Awwburn
11. Arkanslaw
12. Ga Tech
13. Clemson
14. LSU
15. K State

Conferences:

1 SEC-WEST (A) = 88.49 88.63 ( 1) 7 88.58 ( 1)
2 PAC-12(SOUTH) (A) = 80.57 79.12 ( 2) 6 79.75 ( 2)
3 SEC-EAST (A) = 78.91 78.29 ( 3) 7 78.80 ( 3)
4 PAC-12(NORTH) (A) = 76.22 77.54 ( 5) 6 76.64 ( 5)
5 BIG TEN-EAST (A) = 75.90 77.74 ( 4) 7 78.25 ( 4)
6 BIG 12 (A) = 75.59 76.07 ( 6) 10 75.71 ( 6)
7 ACC-ATLANTIC (A) = 74.84 74.18 ( 8) 7 74.63 ( 8)
8 ACC-COASTAL (A) = 74.83 75.26 ( 7) 7 75.04 ( 7)
9 BIG TEN-WEST (A) = 73.57 73.43 ( 9) 7 73.47 ( 9)

[keln]

Well if that doesn't prove Sagarin's rankings are a joke, I don't know what will.