Rank-o-Matic Week 4
Rank-o-Matic week 4 rankings are up. The big change this week is that I’ve decided that the experiment to stop special-casing non-division schools is a failure. Instead, I’m arbitrarily deciding on 0.05 for a win and -0.95 for a loss, on the idea that a 12 win team with a non-division game should have a razor-thin edge over an otherwise identical 11 win team, and that any team that loses a non-division game should have no real shot at a high ranking. I’ve applied the change retroactively, so if you browse back to previous weeks, you’ll see the reports as they would have been had I been using this scoring system all season.
In the works for the coming weeks are a Zeitgeist view showing biggest movers and conference overviews, and a more principled way of rewarding road wins and penalizing home losses. And as always, big thanks to James Howell for collecting and hosting the score data I use to build the ranking. Enjoy!