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smoova wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 3:33 pm I'm just grateful the NCAA employs a playoff system that values head-to-head results.

Just because they value it doesn't mean it's valuable. Or, for that matter, fair and reasonable.

I understand your process. I just think the inability to recognize/weight recent head-to-head results is a limitation that (occasionally) causes mis-rankings. As I understand yours. I'm of the belief (more accurately, my programmer is of the belief) that giving recent head-to-head results a higher ...

ICGrad wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 3:02 pm The fl computer only rewards losing. e.g.: Ohio State @ #6

ICGrad wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 3:02 pm The fl computer only rewards losing. e.g.: Ohio State @ #6

Yes, it would be completely unfair to penalize teams with weaker SOSs![/sarcasm] If a team has a weaker schedule. i.e. They simply haven't proven themselves at all. That team should be punished. Or, better, not rewarded. But the team that only has the ability of playing a handful of tough games due...

HooDat wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:44 pm Admittedly, the Mercer loss is a LOT to forgive, but their only other two losses are to Duke and Utah (also ranked by me). Eight might be high, but gotta reward winning....

Reward winning? #8? Because they beat Air Force and Marquette...

Yeah, that is how it works out for the teams at the top of the polls who have losses to other teams at the top of the polls. It does not work out for middle of the pack teams that play tougher schedules when compared to lower level teams like Marquette that play an extremely week schedule. And agai...

Interesting. I don't think it is reasonable to favor "resume" strength over recent head-to-head results (especially when both teams are inside the top 20), but it's not my computer. I don't know. Considering Ws and Ls from previous seasons the same as Ws and Ls from the previous weekend i...

@X wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:37 pm

@inthe8m wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:37 pm 25 Robert Morris #100 vs #111 Youngstown State 04/12/2023

There should be a congressional investigation if this game is broadcast in any shape or form.

#100 vs. #111. Maybe it'll be a close game...

Yet ... Wesleyan boat-races Amherst, the next computer poll ranks Amherst 6 spots higher, but it's the humans who "have inconsistencies" ... but the "3 best/3 worst" system appears to have some limitations of its own. Last week, in the FanLax Computer Rankings, Amherst was #7 . ...

... So, teams that are playing much, much, much tougher schedules seem to be penalized because they have losses. SU, N'westrn, UNC, BC, and UMD all have Top 7 SOS (Strength of Schedules) and they are all in the Top 7 nationally. You're not penalized for a tougher SOS. Matter of fact, playing a toug...

TNLAX wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:27 pm Nice to see Vanderbilt make a Top 10 list
Been a rough season for the 'Dores

Agreed. They had some rough losses but... They beat PSU and Colorado. That's not so bad...

HomerCoach wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:03 pm

FanLax Computer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:22 pm 19 Albion #51 vs #88 Hope 04/12/2023
20 Albion #51 vs #88 Hope 04/11/2023

Albion vs Hope back-to-back days will be interesting!

Input error. Not my fault. The game is on the 12th...

Yet ... Wesleyan boat-races Amherst, the next computer poll ranks Amherst 6 spots higher, but it's the humans who "have inconsistencies" ... but the "3 best/3 worst" system appears to have some limitations of its own. Last week, in the FanLax Computer Rankings, Amherst was #7 . ...

... Any formula that has Marquette in the Top 15 has some errors in it. Disagree. Their win ranking (#32) is not amazing but is also nothing to sneeze at (OSU, G'town, Cincinnati) but their only loss is to N'western. So one might say, PSU should be ahead of them and... I have PSU at #22. PSu's wins...

Sorry I meant to put Tufts 1move down accordingly Doesn't change 1-19. Does change 20-25 and more. 20-25+ was: 20 Denison 21 Wooster 22 Ithaca 23 Hampden-Sydney 24 Babson 25 Muhlenberg Kenyon Clarkson Geneseo Roanoke Stevenson Pfeiffer RPI Hamilton Now it is: 20 Ithaca 21 Wooster 22 Denison 23 Keny...

smoova wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:28 pm So the computer ignores recent, head-to-head results?

No. I don't ignore recent games. I just don't value them over games that happened earlier in the season. For me, Ws are Ws, Ls are Ls whether they happen in February or May.

Wheels wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:27 pm Proof that computers don't have senses of humor.

I got it, I got it. Just chose to ignore "the joke" and chose to answer seriously...

1766 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:22 pm ... They have some solid wins, along with some rough losses.

Scores aside, they have losses, but don't have any rough losses. Especially relative to the other D1M teams.

...OSU has lost 6 of 8; in 5 of those 6 losses, they weren't competitive. As in: The game was all-but over by halftime. Of their 5 wins, two are against good teams, the other 3 are against, to put it mildly, "lesser" programs. To their credit, the did take care of business against Detroit...