If you want to join the Totally Scientific Fantasy Football League then drop me an e-mail and I'll send you an invite!
This will hopefully be an ongoing league with keepers etc, and is set up on ESPN.
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Introduction
Some of you will know what this is all about. You will have seen the Totally Scientific Power Rankings on one website or another, or the much harder to find Totally Scientific College Football Rankings on the odd message board.
What started out as a joke based on a conversation where I basically stated that Ohio State sucked big hairy ones and didn't deserve the number one ranking led me to try and find a fair way to rank college football teams.
With a background in quality management, and statistical analysis, I figured there must be a way to relate teams to each other without them playing, in the same way that designed experiments can give results for a combination of parameters which were not directly tested and compared. This led to the first ever Totally Scientific College Football rankings appearing on the XMBB just before Ohio State got their asses handed to them in the National Championship game.
Following on from there, and with the general idea that what I was doing for 120 teams could be much more straightforward with only 32 teams involved, I then developed the Totally Scientific NFL Power Rankings. These first appeared on the nflfans community on Liverjournal, and I have since thrown them around the place anytime power rankings are being discussed.
This will be the fifth season that the power rankings have been compiled, and the first time that I have decided to give them their own home.
Previously there were no reasons given with the power rankings, just a list of the teams and while there will be no comments such as "after a dazzling display such and such a team moves up eight places" there will be the odd statistical explanation when a team makes an unusually large leap or takes a big fall.
The College Football Rankings will be available every Sunday (except on weeks where there are Sunday games) and the NFL Power Rankings will be available every Tuesday.
The College Football Rankings will be published simply as a Top 25, but the full 120 teams will be ranked. If you want to find out where a specific team ranks every week just ask, and I will reply in the comments.
That's all for now, I will be carrying out some work to provide a pre-season ranking over the next few weeks, but this will mainly be based on conjecture rather than science, but at least it will give everyone something to talk about.
What started out as a joke based on a conversation where I basically stated that Ohio State sucked big hairy ones and didn't deserve the number one ranking led me to try and find a fair way to rank college football teams.
With a background in quality management, and statistical analysis, I figured there must be a way to relate teams to each other without them playing, in the same way that designed experiments can give results for a combination of parameters which were not directly tested and compared. This led to the first ever Totally Scientific College Football rankings appearing on the XMBB just before Ohio State got their asses handed to them in the National Championship game.
Following on from there, and with the general idea that what I was doing for 120 teams could be much more straightforward with only 32 teams involved, I then developed the Totally Scientific NFL Power Rankings. These first appeared on the nflfans community on Liverjournal, and I have since thrown them around the place anytime power rankings are being discussed.
This will be the fifth season that the power rankings have been compiled, and the first time that I have decided to give them their own home.
Previously there were no reasons given with the power rankings, just a list of the teams and while there will be no comments such as "after a dazzling display such and such a team moves up eight places" there will be the odd statistical explanation when a team makes an unusually large leap or takes a big fall.
The College Football Rankings will be available every Sunday (except on weeks where there are Sunday games) and the NFL Power Rankings will be available every Tuesday.
The College Football Rankings will be published simply as a Top 25, but the full 120 teams will be ranked. If you want to find out where a specific team ranks every week just ask, and I will reply in the comments.
That's all for now, I will be carrying out some work to provide a pre-season ranking over the next few weeks, but this will mainly be based on conjecture rather than science, but at least it will give everyone something to talk about.
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