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Best Conference in NCAAF--Big East?
Ok, based on some feedback from rwperu, I decided to use this new tool I've created and show off on my blog to determine which conference is the best in NCAAF. What I do is use the sagarin predictor to obtain 'spreads' between a base number and all the teams in a given conference. For this exercise, I used the #5, #15, and #50 teams in the country. I then convert that 'spread' into an expected win pct based on a smoothing of all college games of that spread from 1993 through 2006. I then go through all the possible permutations of independent events of those win pct (probabilities) to list the total outcome space of different number of wins and losses. In other words, I project the possible records a team would have playing every team in the conference and list out the resultant expected win/losses and win pct.
For a #5 team in the land playing every conference member: Big East 6.042W 1.958L 0.755winp SEC 9.129W 2.871L 0.761winp PAC10 7.639W 2.361L 0.764winp BIGXII 9.361W 2.639L 0.780winp Big11Ten 9.374W 1.626L 0.852winp ACC 10.602W 1.398L 0.884winp For a #15 team Big East 4.830W 3.170L 0.6038winp SEC 7.249W 4.751L 0.6041winp PAC10 6.052W 3.948L 0.605winp BIGXII 7.607W 4.393L 0.634winp Big11Ten 8.016W 2.984L 0.729winp ACC 9.082W 2.918L 0.757winp For a #50 team SEC 4.543W 7.457L 0.379winp PAC10 3.811W 6.190L 0.381winp Big East 3.143W 4.858L 0.393winp BigXII 5.086W 6.914L 0.424winp Big11Ten 5.562W 5.438L 0.506winp ACC 6.139W 5.861L 0.512winp Current conference rating systems suffer from a linear weighting of teams. Win pcts don't vary linearly with a spread. This ranking actually looks in terms of win/losses. What comes out is essentially a 3-way tie between the SEC, PAC10, and BigEast with the slightest nose going to the Big East but that is well within the margin of error. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out during the rest of the year. |
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