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Nov 30, 2020
3:21:33pm

molodyets Truly Addicted User

And you should average the ratings - not the ranks.

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molodyets

Previous username: patches1391
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Last login: May 4, 2024
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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

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

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

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

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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