I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
How many points is Carson worth?
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When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
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Next two weeks are going to tell the tale for Jax St.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
UTC v. FSU I think is going to be all about how close they can keep it whether you're talking about their Sagarin rating or their position in the polls. Sagarin has that at 26 points at the moment. If they keep it closer than that, all else equal, their rating would tend to improve. If they get thumped it would tend to go down.
Similarly Jacksonville State is favored by 9 and 8.5 the next two weeks. If they win by less than that it'll put downward pressure on their rating. More impressive showings would tend to push their rating up. People tend to do the same sort of thing with the eye test, but are prone to overreact to recent events. Of course people also know when a team's star quarterback is out for the year with an ankle injury while, at least this computer model is completely ignorant of those sorts of facts.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
Better late than never?
Sagarin's 2015 Week 10 Predictions
Sagarin FCS Top-25Code:Rank Team Sagarin Predict Result Diff 70 North Dakota State 68.76 133 Montana 53.15 +12.90 -3.00 -15.90 170 Weber State 44.99 +26.48 +27.00 +0.52 176 North Dakota 43.16 +28.31 +25.00 -3.31 83 South Dakota State 65.38 +0.67 +21.00 +20.33 94 Northern Iowa 62.03 +9.44 +3.00 -6.44 150 South Dakota 50.78 +20.69 -3.00 -23.69 136 Indiana State 52.81 +13.24 +14.00 +0.76 114 Southern Illinois 58.03 +8.02 117 Western Illinois 57.74 +13.73 108 Youngstown State 59.16 +6.89 213 Missouri State 35.26 +36.21 67 Illinois State 69.09 Total Diff: -27.73 Home Field 2.71
Sagarin Conference RankingCode:Rank SagRank RATING Team 1 67 69.09 Illinois State 2 70 68.76 North Dakota State 3 83 65.38 South Dakota State 4 85 64.53 Harvard 5 90 62.61 Jacksonville State 6 94 62.03 Northern Iowa 7 95 61.69 Chattanooga 8 97 61.49 James Madison 9 99 60.38 Coastal Carolina 10 103 59.53 William & Mary 11 104 59.52 Southern Utah 12 106 59.34 Portland State 13 108 59.16 Youngstown State 14 109 59.09 Sam Houston State 15 110 59.05 McNeese State 16 114 58.03 Southern Illinois 17 115 57.85 Richmond 18 117 57.74 Western Illinois 19 118 57.65 Eastern Washington 20 120 57.06 Dartmouth 21 122 56.55 Eastern Kentucky 22 123 56.17 The Citadel 23 128 53.70 Montana State 24 133 53.15 Montana 25 135 52.87 Charleston Southern
Code:Rank Conference CntMean NDSU 1 BIG 12 80.07 9 2 SEC 78.81 14 3 PAC-12 75.96 11 4 ACC 75.85 12 5 BIG TEN 75.61 10 6 I-A INDEPENDENTS 74.50 3 7 AMERICAN ATHLETIC 66.92 7 8 MWC 60.58 4 9 MAC 59.42 3 10 MISSOURI VALLEY 58.77 2 11 CONFERENCE USA 55.94 3 12 SUN BELT 54.76 3 13 BIG SKY 47.88 1 14 COLONIAL 46.77 1 15 SOUTHERN 46.40 1 16 OHIO VALLEY 44.91 1 17 IVY LEAGUE 44.02 1 18 SOUTHLAND 41.35 1 19 BIG SOUTH 41.39 1 20 PATRIOT 35.33 1 21 NORTHEAST 34.01 1 22 MID-EASTERN 31.60 1 23 SWAC 27.42 1 24 PIONEER 24.40 1
NDSU rated higher than ISUr again.
It's OK to not be OK.
Top 3 FCS Sagarin Rankings thru 10/31/15:
66 NDSU
73 Illinois State
81 SDSU
Eight games in and five have been to prediction(<1score), while three have been outliers(>2scores). The Valley still owns the top-25, with 80% of the conference on the list, and taking just about one-third of the top-25 spots.
Sagarin's 2015 Week 11 Predictions
Sagarin FCS Top-25Code:Rank Team Sagarin Predict Result Diff 66 North Dakota State 69.00 132 Montana 52.76 +13.46 -3.00 -16.46 168 Weber State 45.64 +26.14 +27.00 +0.86 172 North Dakota 45.10 +26.68 +25.00 -1.68 81 South Dakota State 66.26 -0.04 +21.00 +21.04 96 Northern Iowa 62.29 +9.49 +3.00 -6.49 150 South Dakota 50.41 +21.37 -3.00 -24.37 128 Indiana State 53.70 +12.52 +14.00 +1.48 113 Southern Illinois 58.12 +8.10 +6.00 -2.10 118 Western Illinois 56.52 +15.26 106 Youngstown State 59.76 +6.46 224 Missouri State 32.88 +38.90 73 Illinois State 67.80 Total Diff: -27.72 Home Field 2.78
Sagarin Conference RankingCode:Rank SagRank RATING Team 1 66 69.00 North Dakota State 2 73 67.80 Illinois State 3 81 66.26 South Dakota State 4 85 65.25 Jacksonville State 5 86 64.76 Harvard 6 91 63.04 Chattanooga 7 96 62.29 Northern Iowa 8 99 61.61 Portland State 9 100 61.37 James Madison 10 101 61.27 Southern Utah 11 104 60.36 William & Mary 12 106 59.76 Youngstown State 13 108 59.20 Sam Houston State 14 109 58.81 Dartmouth 15 110 58.24 McNeese State 16 112 58.14 Coastal Carolina 17 113 58.12 Southern Illinois 18 117 56.61 Richmond 19 118 56.52 Western Illinois 20 120 56.14 Eastern Washington 21 122 55.82 The Citadel 22 124 55.01 Charleston Southern 23 127 53.95 Eastern Kentucky 24 128 53.70 Indiana State 25 132 52.76 Montana
Code:Rank Conference CntMean NDSU 1 BIG 12 79.56 10 2 SEC 77.96 13 3 PAC-12 75.56 11 4 ACC 75.82 11 5 BIG TEN 75.16 9 6 I-A INDEPENDENTS 74.25 3 7 AMERICAN ATHLETIC 67.43 6 8 MWC 60.67 4 9 MAC 59.68 3 10 MISSOURI VALLEY 58.76 1 11 CONFERENCE USA 55.34 3 12 SUN BELT 54.62 3 13 BIG SKY 48.06 1 14 COLONIAL 46.51 1 15 SOUTHERN 46.55 1 16 OHIO VALLEY 44.99 1 17 IVY LEAGUE 44.35 1 18 SOUTHLAND 41.92 1 19 BIG SOUTH 41.84 1 20 PATRIOT 35.74 1 21 NORTHEAST 34.53 1 22 MID-EASTERN 31.75 1 23 SWAC 27.29 1 24 PIONEER 24.60 1