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A key dichotomy among sports rating systems lies in the representation of game outcomes. Some systems store final scores as ternary discrete events: wins, draws, and losses. Other systems record the exact final game score, then judge teams based on margin of victory. Rating teams based on margin of victory is often criticized as creating an ...
Dunkel System. The Dunkel System, also known as the Dunkel College Football Index, [1][2] is a college football rating system developed in 1929 by Richard C. "Dick" Dunkel, Sr. (1906–1975), to determine a national champion. [3] Dunkel rated college football teams from 1929 until his death in 1975. [4]
Jeff Sagarin (born 1948) [1] is an American sports statistician known for his development of a method for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. [2] His Sagarin Ratings have been a regular feature in the USA Today sports section from 1985 to 2023, [2] [3] have been used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to help determine the participants in the NCAA Men's Division I ...
Week 1 in college football is at hand, and that means your humble correspondents here at USA TODAY Sports will once again attempt to pick the weekly winners among the teams in the US LBM Coaches Poll.
Rivalry Week is finally here, the penultimate slate of games on the college football schedule that will set up championship weekend. No. 1 Georgia (11-0, 8-0 in SEC play) will travel to take on ...
Football Power Index (abbreviated as FPI) is a predictive rating system developed by ESPN that measures team strength and uses it to forecast game and season results in American football. Each team's FPI rating is composed of predictive offensive, defensive, and special teams value, as measured by a function of expected points added (EPA). That ...
The Dickinson System was a mathematical point formula that awarded national championships in college football. Devised by University of Illinois economics professor Frank G. Dickinson, the system ranked national teams from 1924 to 1940. The 1924 ratings were made retroactively by Dickinson during the 1925 college football season, the first in ...
Rating Percentage Index. The rating percentage index, commonly known as the RPI, is a quantity used to rank sports teams based upon a team's wins and losses and its strength of schedule. It is one of the sports rating systems by which NCAA basketball, baseball, softball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and volleyball teams are ranked. This system was ...