Foul Balls College Football Rankings - Week 8
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU |  1 |
| 2 | Ohio State |  1 |
| 3 | Boston College | 1 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 5 | Arizona State | 3 |
| 6 | South Florida | 1 |
| 7 | Oregon | 1 |
| 8 | Florida | 6 |
| 9 | Kansas | 7 |
| 10 | West Virginia | 1 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech | 1 |
| 12 | Kentucky | 1 |
| 13 | Missouri | 2 |
| 14 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 8 |
| 16 | Virginia | 2 |
| 17 | Hawaii | 2 |
| 18 | Texas | 4 |
| 19 | Michigan | 2 |
| 20 | Rutgers | 6 |
| 21 | Auburn | 4 |
| 22 | Alabama | 4 |
| 23 | California | 13 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 2 |
| 25 | Illinois | 1 |
Dropped Out: Tennessee (#20), Georgia (#23), Kansas State (#24), Cincinnati (#25).
I'm not going to get too in depth, but the ballot I turned in this week is the result of a highly scientific formula I came up with. It's kind of like Foul Balls' very own BCS rankings.
What I did was I came up with a point system.
Here are the categories in which teams earn points.
- Wins
- Losses
- Wins against teams ranked 11-25
- Wins against teams ranked 6-10
- Wins against teams ranked 1-5
- X-factor
I then take the points each team earns in those categories and come up with a total using crazy mathematical functions like addition and subtraction.
After I'm done with that I rank the teams in five different areas.
- Total Points
- Points Per Game
- AP Ranking
- BCS Ranking
- My Ranking
It's nothing revolutionary, but it seems to work. I mean, I can't find much in the results to argue with.
As you can see, the biggest difference in my ballot is that I have LSU ranked ahead of Ohio State and Boston College. OSU and BC are ranked first and second in every other poll you look at, but I think LSU is a better team than both of them, and would beat them heads up. Yes, the Tigers have a loss while the Buckeyes and Eagles don't, but that loss came in triple overtime at Kentucky, and LSU has wins against teams like Florida, Virginia Tech, and Auburn.
Boston College and Ohio State don't have any wins of that caliber, let alone three.
6 comments:
You try to do math... I laugh.
Ok, so Microsoft Excel does the math, but I came up with the formula!
Didn't need no fancy engineering degree or anything!
My Engineering degree is okay, but I can do much more with my Masters in Applied Math!!!
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Your move, bitch.
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