Author: lmclay

NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS: November 3, 2019

The full Badger Bracketology composite Markov Chain rankings are on the NCAAF rankings tab. The top 25 teams and the B1G teams are below. Wisconsin moved down to #14 and Ohio State remains at #1. 1 Ohio St 2 LSU 3 Clemson 4 Penn St 5 Alabama 6 Utah 7 Auburn 8 Georgia 9 Oregon 10 Baylor …

NFL RANKINGS: OCTOBER 29, 2019

This week’s National Football League rankings are out. Notable changes: San Francisco moves up to take #1. Buffalo moves down 6 spots, and Baltimore and Carolina each move down 3 spots. San Francisco New England Green Bay New Orleans Minnesota Kansas City LA Rams Seattle Houston Baltimore Indianapolis Dallas Carolina Jacksonville Buffalo Philadelphia Detroit Tennessee …

NCAA FOOTBALL FORECASTS: October 28, 2019

Below are the teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games. These are different than the rankings (see this week’s NCAA football rankings), since this list takes the remaining football season into account, including possible conference championship games. Ohio St Clemson LSU Alabama Penn St …

NCAA College Football Rankings: October 27, 2019

The full Badger Bracketology composite Markov Chain rankings are on the NCAAF rankings tab. The top 25 teams and the B1G teams are below. Wisconsin moved down to #14 and Ohio State remains at #1. 1 Ohio St 2 LSU 3 Clemson 4 Penn St 5 Alabama 6 Auburn 7 SMU 8 Florida 9 Oklahoma 10 …

On an eight team college football playoff

Laura Albert posted a blog post entitled “We already have  an 8 team college football playoff” over on Punk Rock Operations Research that you may be interested in reading. We will send you there to read it.

NFL rankings: October 22, 2019

This week’s National Football League rankings are out, albeit a couple of days late due to conference travel. I missed all the games this week because I was busy at the conference. Notable changes: New Orleans moves up one spot to #4, and the Los Angeles Rams move down 5 spots from #13 to #8. …

NCAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS: OCTOBER 20, 2019

The full Badger Bracketology composite Markov Chain rankings are on the NCAAF rankings tab. The top 25 teams and the B1G teams are below. Wisconsin moved down to #8 and Illinois moved up to #72. 1 Ohio St 2 LSU 3 Alabama 4 Clemson 5 Penn St 6 Oklahoma 7 Auburn 8 Wisconsin 9 Baylor 10 …

NFL rankings: October 15, 2019

This week’s National Football League rankings are out. The Green Bay Packers moved up to #3 after kicking a field goal to beat the Detroit Lions as time expired. New England remains at #1 and Miami takes over the last spot. New England San Francisco Green Bay Minnesota New Orleans Kansas City Seattle Buffalo Houston …

NCAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS: OCTOBER 13, 2019

The full Badger Bracketology composite Markov Chain rankings are on the NCAAF rankings tab. The top 25 teams and the B1G teams are below. Wisconsin moved up to #2. The first five teams in the rankings are very close and are a bit of a toss up. 1 Ohio St 2 Wisconsin 3 LSU 4 Alabama …

NFL rankings: October 8, 2019

My first National Football League rankings for the 2019 are available: New England Kansas City San Francisco Green Bay New Orleans Minnesota Buffalo LA Rams Seattle Dallas Carolina Oakland Indianapolis Houston Chicago Philadelphia Detroit Baltimore Tampa Bay Tennessee LA Chargers Jacksonville Cleveland NY Giants Pittsburgh Denver Atlanta Arizona Cincinnati NY Jets Miami Washington