re: Final Strength of Schedule rankings

SOR ranking makes a lot more sense. Indiana ay #16 in SOS destroyed any faith in that metric.

If anyone needs a real explanation of FEI in general

FEI Ratings (FEI), Offense Ratings (OFEI), Defense Ratings (DFEI), and Special Teams Ratings (SFEI) are opponent-adjusted possession efficiency data representing the scoring advantage per non-garbage possession a team or unit would expect to have on a neutral field against an average opponent. Strength of schedule ratings represent the number of losses a team two standard deviations above average would expect to have against the schedule of opponents (ELS), the number of losses a team one standard deviation above average would expect to have against the schedule (GLS), and the number of losses an average team would expect to have against the schedule (ALS). Strength of record ratings (EWD, GWD, AWD) are the difference between a team's schedule strength ratings and its actual losses.

The model does a really good job of ranking teams in terms of quality as a whole as well as breaking that down into the quality of offense and defense.

Their idea of SOS is basically how many losses would an elite team, good, team, and average team be expected to have against your schedule.

Their idea of strength of record is just the difference in your record, and those expectations for elite, good, and average teams.

FEI

You can look at the overall data there.

As far as offensive and defensive efficiency ratings I prefer using F+ because its a combination of SP+ and FEI but for a really good simplified picture of SOS and SOR FEI is fantastic

Tulane has earned it but JMU (nope)
Vandy, Texas or ND should be in before them.

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Smells like there’s a lot of circular math in these end of season metrics that makes bad teams appear to have tougher competition and good teams appear to have weaker competition than is really the actual
Case……

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Or it's just the natural way it works because it's harder to play good teams than it is to play the hard ones.

So if you have a 1 team schedule between 2 teams and they play each other, and team A is rated say 80 and the team B is rated 10. Then team B has played a much tougher schedule than team A.

That's how it should be.