I’m happy to announce that our rankings are on the Ken Massey’s college football rankings composite [Link] along with many other math-based rankings. Look for ” McLay LMLRMC.” Thanks Ken!
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings
I am using the ln(mLRMC) method to rank basketball teams. I’m doing the men for now, and will hopefully branch into women’s basketball and other sports in the future. I’ll post my rankings every Monday …
final 2015 NCAA Football rankings (including bowl games)
Here are the final ln(mLRMC) NCAA college football rankings including the results of all bowl games.Congrats to the B1G, which has 4 teams in the top 11 and to Wisconsin, who rose to #23 after …
hear a talk about Badger Bracketology on 12/9 @ 12:30 at UW-Madison
I will be talking about Badger Bracketology this week. Time: Wednesday, December 9th, 12:30pm. Location: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, room 3280. Speaker: Laura Albert McLay, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, UW-Madison. Title: A Modified Logistic Regression …
final NCAA football rankings
Here are the final Badger Bracketology rankings. We think the committee got it right. mLRMC rankings: Alabama Clemson Michigan State Oklahoma Ohio State Stanford Houston Iowa Notre Dame Florida State North Carolina Western Kentucky Mississippi …
pre-championship game NCAA football rankings
Last week, we posted our college football playoff forecasts, from most likely to least likely to make the playoff. Our playoff forecasts then were as follows: 1 Oklahoma 2 Alabama 3 Clemson 4 Michigan State …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 13
We are down to our final college football playoffs. Conference championship games are very important, but at this point every other game is inconsequential. There is no Big 12 championship, and both of our models …
Rankings vs. forecasts
The Playoff Selection Committee’s rankings yield the ranking right now, which only gives insights into who would be in a playoff if it were held today. Our method simulates the rest of the season to …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 12
Wow, what an exciting weekend of games. Ohio State’s loss — and to a lesser extent Oklahoma State’s loss — changed the rankings and forecasts. We now forecast Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma, Michigan State, and Notre …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 11
With the end of the season near, there are few teams that have a chance to make the playoffs. Both models agree that Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Notre Dame and maybe Oklahoma are the clear …