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Sep 19, 2018
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Randall Toomey
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On the bright side, I guess the 4-9 team only sucked 85% as much as we thought
It did.
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Getting no love from Sagarin. #61 (SOS is #13 to date). Utah State, Utah,
Scott_Tenorman
9/19/18 3:54pm
Just win.
Carnac
9/19/18 3:55pm
^^^This^^^
rerunc
9/19/18 6:31pm
It's got to still have some leftover from last year.
Iron Coug
9/19/18 3:56pm
Sagarin rating doesn't any subjectivity in his ratings. The problem here is the
Mr. Scoobs
9/19/18 3:57pm
As the season goes on, the preseason weightings are diminished and eventually
cougarfan84
9/19/18 4:02pm
Never eliminated, he's keeping 15% weight to last year's results all year
Kajdin
9/19/18 4:13pm
Only thing that makes me want to do is ignore Sagarin.
Randall Toomey
9/19/18 4:15pm
Why on earth would he do that? What does last year's results have to do with
cougarfan84
9/19/18 4:18pm
On the bright side, I guess the 4-9 team only sucked 85% as much as we thought
Randall Toomey
9/19/18 4:21pm
No idea why he thinks it's a good idea. I think it's stupid too.
Kajdin
9/19/18 4:37pm
...because it makes it more accurate overall.
molodyets
9/19/18 4:43pm
What are the effects?
Randall Toomey
9/19/18 4:53pm
it improved his game by game predictions. If it didn't it wouldn't be in there.
molodyets
9/19/18 5:07pm
Ha! More accurate based on whose subjectivity? The eye ball test? That is
cwilke1
9/19/18 4:53pm
Off of his previous formula backtesting for years and years of data.
molodyets
9/19/18 5:05pm
Those are great points I had not thought of.
cwilke1
9/19/18 5:10pm
Because it favors the big boys. It's obvious.
IrishBlue
9/19/18 6:46pm
Yes, in a system designed to ranked and project the final score of every game
molodyets
9/19/18 6:57pm
He's an idiot for weighting the prev year the same across the board. Nonsense.
ArchbishopMitty
9/19/18 8:28pm
It’s all about data points
McTailGator
9/20/18 6:41am
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JimmyZ
9/19/18 4:00pm
Also, close wins don't help. BYU needs a blow out victory to gain major ground.
Iron Coug
9/19/18 4:02pm
We were 91 in Massey Composite preseason. We're 54 now. Just keep winning.
molodyets
9/19/18 4:06pm
In this case I think sagarin is closer to reality than the AP poll
Josef K
9/19/18 4:07pm
Agree 100% our offense is not good.
AudiS4
9/19/18 4:13pm
Yep. Our O is flat
Coogar2
9/19/18 7:30pm
Sorry, but nothing utah state has done has shown better performance than byu
viper
9/19/18 7:04pm
USU’s Sagarin rating is an outlier. Every other computer ranking in the Massey
Josef K
9/19/18 8:38pm
Love McNeese at 160.
kooogar
9/19/18 7:53pm
Honestly, probably getting more love than BYU deserves from the AP
reddead
9/19/18 9:37pm
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