The Superlist
The Superlist
10/22/2004
The last number in each listing is the ranking on
Kenneth Massey's Ratings Comparison Page as a comparison
on the day the Superlist publication.
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rank lw team rating KM Consensus
1 3 USC 99.389 1
2 2 Miami FL 98.833 2
3 1 Oklahoma 97.333 3
4 4 Auburn 96.444 4
5 7 Florida State 95.722 6
6 8 Utah 95.444 5
7 6 California 93.139 7
8 11 Louisville 90.194 15
9 12 Georgia 90.028 12
10 5 Purdue 89.333 14
11 17 Texas A&M 89.167 9
12 10 Arizona State 88.500 8
13 14 Tennessee 88.333 10
14 18 Wisconsin 86.972 11
15 13 Virginia 85.444 16
16 15 Texas 84.889 13
17 16 LSU 84.556 21
18 9 Oklahoma State 84.250 17
19 19 Michigan 82.389 19
20 20 Boise State 78.861 18
21 27 Notre Dame 78.403 20
22 24 Florida 75.722 24
23 22 Texas Tech 74.778 22
24 26 Virginia Tech 73.444 27
25 new Stanford 72.583 23
26 new Iowa 72.194 26
27 23 South Carolina 70.278 29
28 30 UAB 70.222 25
29 25 Southern Miss 68.000 40
30 21 Minnesota 67.583 30
Previously, I had planned to use the Dunkel Index but changed my
mind since it is pay-to-see. I only want to use something you can
actually view. However, if you want to pay the subscription, that's
up to you.
The Superlist is compiled from nine excellent computer rating systems.
Retrodictive systems judge all games are treated equally through the
season and margins of victory are not included. Predictive means that
games are weighted toward the end of the season to reflect their
current strength instead of their average strength throughout the
season as retrodictive ones do. Predictive systems do consider margins
of victory. These are only general observations of retrodictive and
predictive systems. Individual systems may not fit this description
exactly.
(The following is an explanation of how the system is set up but not for
nine teams. When I wrote this there were ten systems. Not all this
information will be on the preliminary rankings.)
rating = the fabricated points issued to each team according to the
Superlist formula. This indicates how many points by which a team will
win or lose a game using simple subtraction. A home team would have a
slight advantage. That advantage would be added to their rating to get
a more accurate estimate of the outcome. If a team wins the number
one position in all ten rating systems it will score 100. If a team wins
all ten number two positions it will score 99. With all ten number thirty
positions a team would score 71.
points = a number one team would get 30 points from each system that
rated the team there, a number two team would get 29, etc. The number
here is the sum of all the points awarded to each team by the separate
systems.
median = the middle point at which half the systems awarding the team
a position would show a higher position and half would award it a
lower one. The median used here only includes the systems that
actually awarded the team one of its top thirty positions. For example,
if a team only made three of the top thirties, in positions 18, 24,
and 25, the median position would be the middle one - 24. If there are
an even number of systems placing the team in their top thirties, the
two middle numbers are averaged for the median. That moves one
system above the median and one system below the median unless both
systems assign the team the same position. Examples:
4, 5, 8, and 9 would yield a median of 6.5.
4, 6, 6, and 20 would become 6.
The other numbers displayed show how many systems placed each team at
number one, in the top five, the top ten, and the top thirty.
The nine systems included in the Superlist are:
The Dr. Edward Kambour NCAA Football Ratings
http://www.geocities.com/kambour/football.html
Sorenson Sports Rankings
http://www.phys.utk.edu/sorensen/cfr/cfr/output/2003/CF_2003_Main.html
Bow Down To Entropy College Football Ratings
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/~dokter/sw/index.html
Bassett Football Model
http://members.cox.net/gbassett/football/
NCAA Division IA Football Power Ratings
http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cfindex.htm
TeamRankings.com
http://teamrankings.com/ncf/
Armstrong College Football Ranking System
http://home.earthlink.net/~ztarmstrong/Div1ACFB/cfbase.htm
Gupta Power Ratings for College Football
http://www.bapi.net/football/college.rat.html
College Football Performance Ratings
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/
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The Superlist was conceived and formulated by Ray Waits of YourLinx
Ratings and consultant Stewart Huckaby of ARGH Ratings. It is the
property of Ray Waits. This list is the property of Ray Waits and
David Wilson.
YourLinx Ratings can be found at:
http://www.nutshellsports.com/
Your comments are welcomed:
ray@ebarrelracing.com
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Sports pages you just can't miss:
David Wilson's American College Football - Rankings List
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/rate/index.html
Everything you ever wanted to know about College Football
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/
Kenneth Massey's College Football Ranking Comparison
http://masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm
Kenneth Massey's College Basketball Ranking Comparison
http://masseyratings.com/cb/compare.htm
NFL and NCAA Football Prediction Trackers
http://tbeck.freeshell.org/
Know of another great sports page that should be listed here? Send it
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