re: Big 3 sports combined Power Rating last 40 years (1977-2016)...

You're not getting it, the tournament points are a completely separate entity. In my amended rankings, I awarded 1.33 points for the football champions. This means that in reality football could arguably be weighted the most. For instance, Mississippi State's baseball team had the best record in the SEC through 30 games this year, quite and achievement, and were awarded 1 point. However, A&M, won the conference tournament and got awarded 0.5 points. So MSU were the Conference Champions but only got 1 point. On the other hand, in 2001 LSU(9-3) but beat Tennessee(11-1) in the conference championship game and were awarded all 1.33 points all though they were only tied for 3rd in the SEC for best record in the regular season.

An argument against awarding points for division titles is pretty easy because, obviously, it is division based. A division has a down year and a shitty team gets awarded 0.5 points. Let's look at 2010 when South Carolina won the East and went 9-5 finishing the season ranked #22. They would get awarded 0.5 points when 5 teams in the West finished the season with better records and a higher ranking, #1 Auburn(14-0), #8 LSU(11-2), #10 Bama(10-3), #12 Arkansas(10-3) and #15 Mississippi State(9-4).