Sagarin Rating Out - USF #3 ELO CHESS!!!

[79 Bull]

Sagarin has USF #3 in his BCS ratings!!!

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbc07.htm

[79 Bull]

Gotta love looking at Auburn in this rating and seeing they are 1-1 against top 10 teams knowing UF is the W and USF is the L!

[Guest BullsBlow]

Make that 6th not 3.  Still very impressive

1  LSU                  A  =  96.08    5  0  68.73(  63)    0  0  |    2  0  |  107.04    1 |  94.70    2

  2  Southern California  A  =  93.79    4  0  70.82(  38)    0  0  |    2  0  |  95.07    5 |  90.26    4

  3  Ohio State          A  =  91.64    5  0  68.98(  60)    0  0  |    1  0  |  89.96    8 |  91.53    3

  4  Oklahoma            A  =  89.20    4  1  64.98( 100)    0  0  |    0  0  |  76.78  38 |  99.11    1

  5  California          A  =  88.34    5  0  71.37(  35)    0  0  |    1  0  |  88.77    9 |  85.03  14

  6  South Florida        A  =  88.14    4  0  72.50(  30)    2  0  |    2  0  |  98.67    3 |  86.95  10

  7  West Virginia        A  =  87.74    4  1  71.29(  36)    0  1  |    0  1  |  85.44  17 |  89.79    5

[___ Eats It]

6th overall

3rd in ELO-CHESS ranking

10 in PURE POINTS (predictor) ranking

[79 Bull]

We are #3 in the ELO CHESS which is Sagarin's rating the BCS uses.  It only looks at SOS and W-L.  The BCS does not allow for margin of victory or other factors in their computer rankings.

[Guest]

Make that 6th not 3.  Still very impressive

College Football 2007 through games of September 29 Saturday          the BCS uses the ELO_CHESS from here

HOME ADVANTAGE=  2.93          RATING    W  L  SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 |  ELO_CHESS  |  PREDICTOR

  1  LSU                  A  =  96.08    5  0  68.73(  63)    0  0  |    2  0  |  107.04    1 |  94.70    2

  2  Southern California  A  =  93.79    4  0  70.82(  38)    0  0  |    2  0  |  95.07    5 |  90.26    4

  3  Ohio State          A  =  91.64    5  0  68.98(  60)    0  0  |    1  0  |  89.96    8 |  91.53    3

  4  Oklahoma            A  =  89.20    4  1  64.98( 100)    0  0  |    0  0  |  76.78  38 |  99.11    1

  5  California          A  =  88.34    5  0  71.37(  35)    0  0  |    1  0  |  88.77    9 |  85.03  14

  6  South Florida        A  =  88.14    4  0  72.50(  30)    2  0  |    2  0  |  [glow=yellow,2,300]98.67    3[/glow] |  86.95  10

  7  West Virginia        A  =  87.74    4  1  71.29(  36)    0  1  |    0  1  |  85.44  17 |  89.79    5

No, actually ... it's #3 on the ELO-CHESS rating, which is Sagarin's BCS component.

[RSSMOOTH]

What does ELO-Chess mean?

[Grateful Dad]

What does ELO-Chess mean?

You must be young.  That's the rankings given by Electric Light Orchestra!! ;D

[kastofsna]

yeah ELO formed a chess club in the late 70's, it didn't go over so well, so they decided to switch to rating college football a few years back.

[WhaddaBunchaBull]

What does ELO-Chess mean?

I didn't know what it meant either, so I went to the link above.  Here's what it says about ELO-Chess:

In ELO-CHESS, only winning and losing matters; the score margin is of no consequence,

which makes it very "politically correct".  However it is less accurate in its predictions for

upcoming games than is the PURE POINTS, in which the score margin is the only thing that matters.

PURE POINTS is also known as PREDICTOR, BALLANTINE, RHEINGOLD, WHITE OWL and is the best single PREDICTOR

of future games.  The ELO-CHESS will be utilized by the Bowl Championship Series(BCS).