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re: Sagarin Conference Rankings: SEC #2?
Posted on 12/17/12 at 6:15 pm to MrSEC
Posted on 12/17/12 at 6:15 pm to MrSEC
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For some reason, Sagarin always leans too hard on the suck teams. Big XII only had one awful team this year, Kansas. The SEC had three: Kentucky, Auburn, and Arkansas. That's why his rankings are the way they are.
From the top-down, though, it's a no-brainer. Big XII had three teams with 8 or more wins. The SEC had eight to include six with 10 or more wins. Sick.
No. It has to with a dumb statistical bias.
Posted on 12/17/12 at 6:26 pm to TeLeFaWx
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No. It has to with a dumb statistical bias.
It actually doesn't have to do with the weighting you describe. He does it weighted, unweighted, and with a "removed bad teams" method.
The problem is Sagarin, like many staticians, doesn't understand what he is modeling well enough to construct a competent model.
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