Sagarin Ratings

[Just1More]

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It was my understanding that Sagarin ratings weren't even computed until several weeks into the season & based upon actual game performance. Is this ranking based on the schedule this season & where each team & their opponents finised last season, or is it like the tracking forecast for Hurricane Isaac?

Yes... Sagarin, as of now, uses last year's results and in a segment of the computation it uses this year's schedule. No matter what, it is a double and triple whammy of last year's ratings and margins of victory against last year's ratings. Sagarin carries over from last year and then starts computing this year's results to establish new ratings as the season moves on.

If you take our 110 rating, it would still have us going 7-5 against our opponents this season. If we ever expect to leap up in a mathematical rating system (or any system for that matter), we are going to have to beat the snot out of everyone in the SBC and upset some highly rated teams. Despite our great season, we did not do that last year.

[Bandwagon King]

Yes... Sagarin, as of now, uses last year's results and in a segment of the computation it uses this year's schedule. No matter what, it is a double and triple whammy of last year's ratings and margins of victory against last year's ratings. Sagarin carries over from last year and then starts computing this year's results to establish new ratings as the season moves on.

If you take our 110 rating, it would still have us going 7-5 against our opponents this season. If we ever expect to leap up in a mathematical rating system (or any system for that matter), we are going to have to beat the snot out of everyone in the SBC and upset some highly rated teams. Despite our great season, we did not do that last year.

So then according to the formula they use, UL is just a victim of beating bad teams & Playing an easy schedule? This formula is whack then. No wonder the powers that be were under such pressure to include a human pollin the NC game. Anyone who went 9-4 , played in bowl & won, had to play the number 2 team in the country, & has to play two top 20 teams this season should be ranked way higher than that based on any formula that makes sense.