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CFB Week 3 Grades

Posted on September 22, 2016
By RufusCollege Football College Football 2016 Blog
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Here are our “grades” for the third week of the college season. We control for game location and opponent quality, and discount garbage time situations. score diff is how we’d expect the team to do against an average team on a neutral field based on the way they actually played in the game, but using only predictive metrics. pctile rating is a rating of…

CFB Week 2 Grades

Posted on September 16, 2016
By RufusCollege Football College Football 2016 Blog
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Here are our “grades” for the second week of the college season. We control for game location and opponent quality, and discount garbage time situations. score diff is how we’d expect the team to do against an average team on a neutral field based on the way they actually played in the game, but using only predictive metrics. So…

CFB Week 1 Grades

Posted on September 9, 2016
By RufusCollege Football College Football 2015 Blog

Team can play well and lose, or poorly and win. In order to see beyond the score to determine how a team performed fundamentally, we score a team’s performance in each game relative to all games played in the last ten years, accounting for opponent strength. With this tool we can objectively see which wins were…

CFB Projections

Posted on September 1, 2016
By Cade MasseyCollege Football College Football 2016 Blog Methodology
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Rufus and I always enjoy the NFL post-season projections we update throughout the season. Frankly it might be our favorite product. This year we decided to put together something similar on the college side. But since the playoff committee lies beyond a humble quant’s domain, we have to approach it a little differently. Our projections…

Do we have any bowl picks?

Posted on December 21, 2015
By Cade MasseyAnalysis College Football College Football 2015 Blog
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Last week I posted picks for a bowl “confidence pool”. Those simply require ranking the bowls 1-40 in how confident you are in who the outright winner will be. You bet/get 40 points for your most confident, 39 for next, etc. Our usual rankings are fine for that and it adds some flavor to the…

Picks for Bowl Pools

Posted on December 16, 2015
By Cade MasseyCollege Football College Football 2015 Blog
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Have been inspired this week to enter a bowl confidence pool. Crazy to try to predict bowls, we understand, but better our numbers than nothing, right? Well, we’ll see. We like that it’s confidence-based, and a reasonably big sample. And we like that it will add some flavor to the holidays. The usual details apply….

Impact of Schedule Strength. Wow.

Posted on September 3, 2015
By Cade MasseyAnalysis College Football College Football 2015 Blog
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So you’re forecasting the season for the top 25 teams in college football. What do you think matters more, how good a team is or what kind of schedule they play? We all know strength of schedule matters, but how much? Might differences in schedule strength contribute as much to the final standings as differences…

Most over- and under-rated CFB teams

Posted on September 3, 2015
By Cade MasseyAnalysis College Football College Football 2015 Blog
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For yesterday’s show on Wharton Moneyball I took a look at how expectations differed between “Experts” and “Algorithms”. I.e., the coaches and writers who vote in the two main polls versus analytics-based models like ours. To do this I just took the average points in the Coaches and AP polls, and compared that to the…

CFB 2015

Posted on September 2, 2015
By Cade MasseyCollege Football College Football 2015 Blog
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Howdy and welcome to the 2015 football season. Finally. As much as we like speculation, we’re very happy to have real football and real results on the way soon. We’ve posted our pre-season rankings and will have picks before Thursday’s openers. And then of course next week we’ll fold in the NFL. Our Top 25…

Season-at-a-Glance: Oregon vs. Ohio State

Posted on January 12, 2015
By Cade MasseyAnalysis College Football
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The season-long head-to-head matchup between the Ducks and Buckeyes has been like a great basketball game: lots of lead changes. They started the season #s 3 & 5, ended it 2 & 3, and never left the top 10 in-between. But what is most noticeable are the 9 (!) lead changes in the 17 weeks…

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