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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1499307, 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 standings, they will sort themselves out as the season goes on and come more and more into focus. Later listings will be more meaningful than 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 FIVE (10/1-3/2015) Florida beat #3 Mississippi 38-10 23+28= 51 points Alabama beat #8 Georgia 38-10 18 + 28 = 46 points Arizona State beat #7 UCLA 38-23 19 + 15 = 34 points Oklahoma beat #23 West Virginia 44-24 3 + 20 = 23 points Clemson beat #6 Notre Dame 24-22 20 + 2 = 22 points Purdue lost to #2 Michigan State 21-24 24-3 = 21 points Indiana lost to #1 Ohio State 27-34 25-7 = 18 points Texas A&M beat #21 Mississippi State 30-17 5 + 13 = 18 points Iowa beat #19 Wisconsin 10-6 7 + 4 = 11 points Notre Dame lost to #12 Clemson 22-24 14-2 = 10 points Wake Forest lost to #11 Florida State 16-24 15-7 = 8 points Kansas State lost to #20 Oklahoma State 34-36 5 – 2 = 3 points SEASON TOTALS Alabama 75 points Utah 55 points Florida 51 points Texas A&M 50 points UCLA 44 points Louisiana State 35 points Michigan 35 points Arizona State 34 points Oklahoma 33 points Brigham Young 32 points Notre Dame 32 points Mississippi 30 points Stanford 30 points Louisville 25 points Clemson 22 points Michigan State 22 points Purdue 21 points Duke 20 points Texas Tech 20 points Indiana 18 points Northern Illinois 18 points Oregon 18 points Minnesota 17 points Northwestern 15 points Jacksonville State 13 points Toledo 12 points Vanderbilt 12 points Iowa 11 points Georgia Tech 10 points Mississippi State 10 points Virginia 10 points Kentucky 9 points Syracuse 8 points Wake Forest 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 Kansas State 3 points Connecticut 1 point [/QUOTE]

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