Apparently, Jeff Sagarin doesn't think his new and "improved version" of his new formula for the BCS to use is improved enough. He made a significant change to it again during the week, so now the ...
The Southeastern Conference has won six national championships in a row, with the potential for seven should Alabama beat Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7. There's no ...
When the BCS standings are calculated Sunday, one of the six computer ratings that will be involved will carry the heading Sagarin ELO_chess. That rating is one of three on college football that Jeff ...
What are the Sagarin Rankings? If you got a sport, Jeff Sagarin’s got a ranking based on statistical analysis. (Translation: this was the last guy picked in gym class). What he tries to do is put some ...
Sagarin, by contrast, is a mathematical expert on both topics and knows their implications. And when I pointed out that, for the first time, the NCAA had chosen its Big Dance field under ...
In the 2001 season of the BCS, half of the eight computers used at that time considered margin of victory in their calculations, and the other half did not. That year, human poll No. 2 Oregon did not ...
The debate over which conference is the best has been settled by at least one, non-human poll. The Big 12 is the best overall conference in 2013, according to Jeff Sagarin's ratings. Go ahead, Big 12 ...