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The Secret Desire of
the BCS Ranking: The MegaRanking does not invent rules or tamper with the computer ratings as the BCS does. It also adds something the BCS lacks - what the fans think! If you want the two best teams, VOTE! Components:
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This is This BCS concept allows you to be a part of it! Go to Rick's poll and tell us your choice of the top 25 teams. We have the coaches, we have the computers. We have fans but we want you, too! The Superlist is a formula based upon the median ranking among nine excellent rating systems. The Coaches' Poll has always been used to choose bowl contenders and national champions. It has its faults but is usually very reliable nevertheless. I do not publish the Coaches' Poll in any form. I only use the positions to calculate the MegaRanking. The Workman Poll is the missing piece in the BCS. Don't you think fans should have their say on what teams go to the big games? Last year the fans did quite a good job. And if you don't like the current rankings of the Better BCS Ranking, you can go to the Workman Poll and express your displeasure by voting for your favorite team. Credit, of course, goes to the compilers and the coaches who vote in the Coaches' Poll, David Wilson who maintains the American College Football Directory that I have always visited often and who calculates the Superlist I formulated with the help of him and Stewart Huckaby. Thanks also to the nine computer rating systems that contribute to it in any given year. Thanks to Kenneth Massey who maintains the College Football Ranking Comparison which I also visit frequently, and our newest contributor, Rick Workman who maintains the Workman Poll and, of course, the fans who vote in it each week. |
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The Better BCS The coaches have spoken ... And seven of the nine computers have spoken. The other two will be in soon and you will see the final edition for this season. MegaRanking for 12/04/2007
The actual positions of the teams in the various components are not revealed here because I like to protect others' property. For that information please go to their sites. EXPLANATION The BCS has been fiddling around with the computers and polls for years trying to get the perfect formula. First they find eight good computer systems and fiddle around with them, then they publish polls without permission, then they make changes every year. One year it's the computers' fault, next year it's the polls' fault. Then they worry about which teams would make more money and draw a better audience and things go haywire as they did last year. I have a better solution. The computers do a great job. I have been doing some fiddling around of my own and have the perfect solution that should make everyone happy. The answer is to use the following components:
The MegaRanking is calculated in an exaggerated mathematical formula centering mostly on the median rank of the three components as well as how many of the components actually included the team in its top 25. |
