Around the SB Nation: the disappointment of Michigan's Justin Feagin

by Joel Hollingsworth on Aug 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

Maize N Brew on how to cope with the departure of Justin Feagin, who was kicked off the team for his participation in a failed drug deal.
And the Valley Shook revises the standard QB rating formula to more properly account for a QB's true success.
The Rivalry, Esq. has some helpful tips to coaches on how to game the BCS.

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Gaming the BCS

Regarding his preferential voting motive:

First, your coach has to actually have a vote (61 do, which is basically half).

Second, your coach has 1/61 = 1.64% of the total Coaches Poll influence.

Third, the Coaches Poll has 1/3 of the influence of the total score: 1/3*1.6% = 0.55%

Fourth, if you fix the votes too drastically, it’ll get noticed. Other coaches (or, more likely, Harris poll voters) will compensate and you’ll be worse off. So that 0.55% of influence, even if it could be tweaked for a 10% gain, would net 0.055% of a difference for you.

Fifth, strength of schedule metrics ignore polls. Tweaking the scores of your opponents will not provide benefit elsewhere in the system.

If there’s one thing about the BSC system, it’s that no one shyster voter can change the outcome.

by David Hooper on Aug 14, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions