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Massey's ratings came under some scrutiny, even from Massey himself in late 2008 for rating undefeated Utah ahead of then-consensus human poll #1 Alabama at the end of the season. In spite of the controversy, his ratings gained redemption after then-#6 Utah's 31–17 victory in the 2009 Sugar Bowl over then-#4 Alabama.
Kenneth Massey is the owner of this complex computer system. He was a Ph.D. candidate of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. Only the score, venue, and date of each game are used to calculate the Massey ratings. However, Massey calculates an offensive and defensive ratings which combine to produce a power ranking as well.
The oldest of the rating systems, the National Sports News Service, was begun by Arthur H. "Art" Johlfs—who originally started naming champions informally in 1927 as a 21 year old high school coach and official, [2] but did so more formally starting in 1959 [3] after enlarging his network of supporting hobbyists [2] to receive reports from six separate areas of the country. [4]
Sports ratings systems have been around for almost 80 years, when ratings were calculated on paper rather than by computer, as most are today. Some older computer systems still in use today include: Jeff Sagarin's systems, the New York Times system, and the Dunkel Index , which dates back to 1929.
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.
Rank Quarterback Rating; 1 * Aaron Rodgers 102.6 2 * Patrick Mahomes 102.1 3 * Lamar Jackson 102.0 4 * Joe Burrow 101.2 5 * Russell Wilson 99.8 6 * Deshaun Watson 98.8 7 Drew Brees
The logo of kenpom.com, the website that hosts the ratings. The Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings are a series of predictive ratings of men's college basketball teams published free-of-charge online by Ken Pomeroy. They were first published in 2003. [1] The sports rating system is based on the Pythagorean expectation, though it has some ...
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 ...