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The Secret Desire of
the BCS Ranking:
MegaRanking
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:
WHAT A COMBINATION!
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This is
YOUR BCS
This BCS concept allows you to be a part of it!
VOTE!
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 Oddsmakers' livelihood depends upon being
right. And as Todd Beck's Tracker indicates, they are right a lot.
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 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.
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:
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The Superlist
- compiled from nine highly reliable computer rating systems with a
much better formulation than that of the BCS;
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The Oddsmakers' Ratings;
and
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The Workman Poll
(voted by fans) of whom they think should play.
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.
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The
Better BCS
2009 Final Edition
MegaRanking
The MegaRanking is a unique combination of the SuperList, the
Workman Poll,
and the Oddsmakers. Why the Oddsmakers? Can you think
of anyone who has
more on the line (no pun intended) that
depends on being
correct?
The
highest possible
rating is 100. Real contenders have a rating of 96 or higher.
Suddenly Alabama is a unanimous number one. Everybody onto the
'Bama
band wagon. It looks to me as if Vegas is about to try to make a killing on
the
hype. I think Texas will win.
Here we have the perfect scenario for a six-team playoff. The
winner of the
Florida-Cincinnati game (#3 vs #5) plays Texas (#2). The winner of the
TCU-Boise State game (#4 vs #6) plays Alabama (#1). The next game really
would be the championship game. Alas, it will never happen.
(Note: The playoffs above would have set Florida against Texas and Boise
State against Alabama. The outcome might be the same but nobody would
be arguing except sore losers.)
The C in BCS stands for Championship. If you remove a real
Championship
playoff, you are left with BS. Isn't that ironic? If you would just take it one step
further. More money.
More happy fans.
Here's whom the computers, oddsmakers, and fans
like:
| rank |
Team |
Rating |
Positions |
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| 1 |
Alabama |
100.00 |
1,1,1 |
| 2 |
Texas |
98.32 |
2,2,3 |
| 3 |
Florida |
97.38 |
2,3,6 |
| 4 |
TCU |
97.08 |
3,4,4 |
| 5 |
Cincinnati |
96.10 |
4,5,11 |
| 6 |
Boise State |
95.91 |
5,6,9 |
| 7 |
Oregon |
95.82 |
5,7,7 |
| 8 |
Ohio State |
95.24 |
7,8,11 |
| 9 |
Georgia Tech |
94.85 |
9,9,13 |
| 10 |
Penn State |
94.48 |
10,10,16 |
| 11 |
Virginia Tech |
94.30 |
10,12,14 |
| 12 |
LSU |
94.22 |
8,13,15 |
| 13 |
Oklahoma |
93.84 |
6 |
| 14 |
Iowa |
93.68 |
11,12,25 |
| 15 |
Miami FL |
93.56 |
13,15,18 |
| 16 |
Texas Tech |
93.17 |
8 |
| 17 |
Oregon State |
93.05 |
14,17,22 |
| 18 |
USC |
92.70 |
15,16 |
| 19 |
Mississippi |
92.59 |
12,20 |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh |
92.37 |
16,18 |
| 21 |
Oklahoma State |
92.30 |
19,20,23 |
| 22 |
Stanford |
92.13 |
17,22,24 |
| 23 |
Arkansas |
92.03 |
17,20 |
| 24 |
West Virginia |
91.78 |
18,21 |
| 25 |
Arizona |
91.72 |
19,23,25 |
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.
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