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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.

NCAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS: SEPTEMBER 8, 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 4 Ohio St 5 Georgia 6 Oklahoma 7 Notre Dame 8 Auburn 9 Penn St 10 Michigan 11 Florida 12 …

NCAA Football rankings: 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 7 UCF 8 Michigan 9 LSU 10 Washington 11 Washington St 12 Fresno St 13 Kentucky 14 Penn St 15 …

NFL football rankings: 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 Dallas Indianapolis Carolina Denver Tennessee Cincinnati Green Bay Cleveland Philadelphia Atlanta Washington Tampa Bay Detroit Miami Jacksonville Buffalo NY Giants …

NFL football rankings: 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 Baltimore Carolina Minnesota Seattle Indianapolis Dallas Tennessee Cincinnati Green Bay Denver Atlanta Miami Washington Detroit Philadelphia Cleveland Tampa Bay Jacksonville …

NFL football rankings: 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. I have Kansas City in the top spot, Oakland ranked dead last, and the Packers ranked 16th. Kansas City New …

NCAA Football forecasts: November 6, 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 list takes the remaining football season into account, including possible conference championship games. The remaining games help us understand possible …

Final Four men’s basketball rankings

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 Virginia 3 Kansas 4 Duke 5 Cincinnati 6 Purdue 7 Michigan 8 Michigan St 9 Xavier 10 Gonzaga 11 West …

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

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 West Virginia 18 Nevada 19 Texas Tech 20 Kentucky 22 Clemson 25 Loyola-Chicago 31 Kansas St 32 Texas A&M 58 …

NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, 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 Ohio St Nevada St Marys CA West Virginia Texas Tech Michigan TCU Clemson Arizona Houston Tennessee USC Rhode Island Seton …