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NCAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS: SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Posted on September 9, 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 after two weeks of games. 1 Clemson 2 Alabama 3 LSU …

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NCAA Football rankings: December 3, 2018

Posted on December 3, 2018

The full Badger Bracketology composite Markov Chain rankings are on the NCAAF rankings tab. The top 25 teams and the B1G teams are below. 1 Alabama 2 Clemson 3 Notre Dame 4 Georgia 5 Ohio St 6 Oklahoma …

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NFL football rankings: November 27, 2018

Posted on November 27, 2018

This week’s NFL power rankings are below. The top 7 and the bottom 2 remained unchanged since last week. New Orleans LA Rams Kansas City Pittsburgh Chicago New England LA Chargers Houston Baltimore Minnesota Seattle …

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NFL football rankings: November 20, 2018

Posted on November 20, 2018

This week’s NFL power rankings are below. New Orleans is #1, Kansas City falls to #3, and Chicago rises to #5 🙂 New Orleans LA Rams Kansas City Pittsburgh Chicago New England Houston LA Chargers …

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NFL football rankings: November 14, 2018

Posted on November 14, 2018

The data-driven Markov chain methods I use for ranking NCAA football teams can be applied to NFL football using data. I thought I would give this a try.  My first NFL power rankings are below. …

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NCAA Football forecasts: November 6, 2018

Posted on November 8, 2018

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 …

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Final Four men’s basketball rankings

Posted on March 29, 2018

March 29, 2018 I’ve re-ranked the men’s basketball teams based on all games leading up to the Final Four. The remaining four teams (in boldface) are ranked 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 19th. 1 Villanova 2 …

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Where do the Sweet 16 basketball teams fall in the rankings?

Posted on March 21, 2018

Here are where the Sweet 16 teams were ranked on Selection Sunday in my composite rankings, creating by combining several ranking methods: 1 Villanova 4 Purdue 5 Kansas 7 Duke 8 Gonzaga 11 Michigan 12 …

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NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, February 26, 2018

Posted on February 26, 2018

Here are my composite Markov chain rankings for February 26, 2018.  The full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. Michigan St Villanova Virginia Purdue Cincinnati Duke Kansas Auburn Xavier Gonzaga North Carolina Wichita St …

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College Football Playoff forecast: October 29, 2017

Posted on October 30, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: 1 Georgia 2 Notre Dame 3 Penn St 4 Wisconsin 5 Alabama 6 Clemson …

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