Around the SB Nation: the disappointment of Michigan's Justin Feagin
by Joel on Aug 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
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- 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.
Heh.
At least it distracted from my misspelling of “BCS”. Kinda like having to ask what the number for 911 is…
we always assume it's an intentional witticism..
(BS Championship)
Funny enough,
the radio guys who interview Joel today thought my misspelling of Nick Stephens’s last name was some sort of humor that they just didn’t get.
In reality, I’m just having a hard time typing…
It happened shortly after your interview ended.
They got back on the subject of the post and Ward mentioned my fixing of the typos explicitly. Only he didn’t seem to realize they were typos and thought I was making some sort of intentional play on alternate spellings.
If the drug deal had gone through, would Feagin have still been kicked off the team?
Or does Coach Rod just hate people who can’t follow simple instructions?
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