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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1492069, member: 289"] The system is very simple. First I hand out points to teams based on the ranking of their opponent. If you play the #1 ranked team, you get 25 points for playing such a powerful team. You get 24 points for playing the #2 team, 23 for playing the #3 team, etc. I’ll call them schedule points. Here’s a chart to make it easy: 1-25, 2-24, 3-23, 4-22, 5-21, 6-20, 7-19, 8-18, 9-17, 10-16, 11-15, 12-14, 13-13, 14-12, 15-11, 16-10, 17-9, 18-8, 19-7, 20-6, 21-5, 22-4, 23-3, 24-2, 25-1. That’s step one. Now we play the games and see how these teams actually do on the field. What cued me into this is that most games will be won or lost by 25 points or less, so the points involved are comparable. You just compare the point differential to the points teams have gotten for playing a ranked opponent. If they beat the ranked opponent, their points will grow by the margin of victory. If they lose, you subtract the margin of victory from the schedule points. If that reduces them to zero or less, they get zero points. I’m not going to deal with minus points, just add up the positive points earned, or else my rankings would be cluttered up with a lot of inferior teams who were below the Mendoza line because they’d gotten blown out by their ranked opponents. If you play the #1 team and lose by 21 points, you’ll get 4 points: 25 schedule points minus the 21 points you lost by. If you play the #10 team and lose by 13 points, you’ll get three points. If you play the #15 team and lose by 14 points, you’ll get nothing, (11-14 = 0 in this system). I’ll record the points earned each week and how the teams got them and add them up over the course of the season. That will show us how each team did “against ranked teams”. Like all cumulative standing, they will sort themselves out as the season goes on and come more and more into focus. Later listings will be more meaningful that early ones as more and more teams get through the meat of their schedules. The cumulative listing should I think be less a ranking of teams than a statistic you look at in determining where to rank the teams. WEEK FOUR Utah beat #13 Oregon 62-20 13 + 42 = 55 points UCLA beat #16 Arizona 56-30 10 + 26 = 36 points Michigan beat #22 Brigham Young 31-0 4 + 31 = 35 points Duke beat #20 Georgia Tech 34-20 6 + 14 = 20 points Texas Tech lost to #3(tied) Texas Christian 52-55 23-3 = 20 points Vanderbilt lost to #3(tied) Mississippi 16-27 23-11 = 12 points Kentucky beat #25 Missouri 21-13 1 + 8 = 9 points Syracuse lost to #8 Louisiana State 24-34 18-10 = 8 points Arkansas lost to #14 Texas A&M 21-28 12-7 = 5 points Ball State lost to #17 Northwestern 19-24 9-5 = 4 points Central Michigan lost to #2 Michigan State 10-30 24-20 = 4 points Comment: The Ute’s made Foie gras of the Ducks in their own kitchen but it wasn’t the most impressive victory of the three years I’ve been keeping track of this: 12/6/14 Ohio State beat #13 Wisconsin 59-0 = 72 points 10/5/13 Florida State beat #25 Maryland 63-0 = 64 points 10/18/14 Alabama beat #21 Texas A&M 59-0 = 64 points 10/19/13 Florida State beat #3 Clemson 51-14 = 60 points 12/5/14 Oregon beat #7 Arizona 51-13 = 57 points SEASON TOTALS Utah 55 points UCLA 44 points Louisiana State 35 points Michigan 35 points Brigham Young 32 points Texas A&M 32 points Mississippi 30 points Stanford 30 points Alabama 29 points Louisville 25 points Michigan State 22 points Notre Dame 22 points Duke 20 points Texas Tech 20 points Northern Illinois 18 points Oregon 18 points Minnesota 17 points Northwestern 15 points Jacksonville St. 13 points Toledo 12 points Vanderbilt 12 points Georgia Tech 10 points Mississippi State 10 points Oklahoma 10 points Virginia 10 points Kentucky 9 points Syracuse 8 points Western Michigan 8 points Air Force 7 points Virginia Tech 7 points Wisconsin 6 points Arkansas 5 points Ball State 4 points Central Michigan 4 points Southern Methodist 4 points Boston College 3 points Connecticut 1 point [/QUOTE]

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