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Nov 30, 2020
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molodyets
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He isn't sitting there tinkering with things to make the B10 look better.
It's an objective ranking.
This year is really messed up with varying numbers of games.
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Something stinks with Sagarin
Hill4Heisman
11/30/20 3:08pm
It doesn't seem to factor in number of games played
jaromp
11/30/20 3:11pm
It will all be based off of the OOC for the conferences and any previous season
Cougar8Duck
11/30/20 3:13pm
Could just be that the SEC has played enough games to cycle out last year's
rcbyufan
11/30/20 3:14pm
SOS this year is all garbage because
PortlandCoug
11/30/20 3:18pm
My dumbed down explanation: Sagarin still thinks Penn St and Mich are really
rcbyufan
11/30/20 3:26pm
He has to be using an historical average
PortlandCoug
11/30/20 3:31pm
He isn't sitting there tinkering with things to make the B10 look better.
molodyets
11/30/20 3:21pm
And you should average the ratings - not the ranks.
molodyets
11/30/20 3:21pm
He relies on prior year rankings until there is connection between groups of teams. With no OOC, those connections won’t
jollaksentie
11/30/20 3:24pm
Recent year perf is a very strong indicator of future perf, so Penn St and Mich
molodyets
11/30/20 3:27pm
So it's a broken metric, but people are using it to evaluate teams
Hill4Heisman
11/30/20 3:30pm
It seems that way. I’d like to hear him comment on it
jollaksentie
11/30/20 6:59pm
This is the answer. Bayesian priors until enough OOC games played
yakkamole
11/30/20 8:15pm
No way of telling when most don't play OOC games.
Count Cougar
11/30/20 4:47pm
While I give zero credence to the B1G being that high, I AM a CRITIC...
LEDSFW
11/30/20 7:07pm
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