Thursday 17 September 2009

FEI Week 2

Clemson rises two notches from #16 to #14. Taking the #10 team to the final minute on their home turf helps the cause, I guess. The problem comes when the system over-rates an entire conference. Three ACC teams in the top 15? Doesn't seem likely given the early results.

Ken Massey's meta-rankings, which aggregates 46 rankings into a single score, pegs Clemson at 36 with no ACC teams in the top 15--VT grades out the highest at 19. Sounds a little more reasonable, but on the other hand, it has TCU at 10.

From what I can see most of the Ken Massey ranking systems are Sagarin-type ratings, basing their rankings on margin of victory and strength of opponent. These are fairly crude measures of team strength, but I'd have to give them the upper hand on FEI, for now. We'll see how the rest of the season plays out.

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