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@HeretoBeatmyChest has taken some flack lately, but Bill Connelly of sbnation.com and footballoutsiders.com writes a column called 'numerical' every week. Here's the excerpt on UW which speaks directly to the point chest has been making. The bolded part especially:

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Washington rose 21 spots, from 40th to 19th, in this week's F/+ rankings following a 49-3 destruction of Arizona. The change in S&P+ (which accounts for half of the F/+ rankings) was even more stark: 30 spots, from 48th to 18th.

How does a jump like that happen this late in the year, long after preseason projections have been phased out of the system? Two primary reasons:

Teams in this portion of the ratings are bunched together. S&P+ is presented in the form of an adjusted scoring margin, and at the moment there's only a touchdown's difference between No. 18 Washington (plus-14.2) and No. 44 Georgia (plus-7.2). Meanwhile, there's a touchdown's difference between No. 1 Clemson (28.7) and No. 4 Ohio State (plus-21.4). This is a crowded section of the bell curve, so a really good game can move you up.
Washington played a really good game. Arizona is a bad team this year -- 87th in F/+, 86th in S&P+ (32nd on offense, 115th on defense) -- but the Huskies' domination was swift and complete. The Wildcats drove for a field goal on their first drive, then finished with five punts, four turnovers and three turnovers on downs. The young Washington offense finished with seven touchdowns in 10 drives. Hard to top that.
Washington is only 4-4 but has played at an incredibly high level in its four wins (average percentile performance: 89.8) and has suffered three one-possession losses. Considering youth, the Huskies are far closer to being a strong team than they should be. They could be something pretty awesome in 2016


that's the full exerpt from this link: http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/11/3/9662926/mark-richt-georgia-hot-seat-brian-schottenheimer-faton-bauta
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  • Alexis
    Alexis Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 3,473 Founders Club
    Doog. (Obligatory)
  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744
    The key point is that there is always a giant glut of mediocre teams in college football. We shouldn't be reading too much into small improvements in the various analytic ranking systems year over year because the margin separating any two given teams is smaller and smaller as you move down the rankings from 1 to 60 or so.
  • Slocus
    Slocus Member Posts: 289

    You've got to dig deeper into the advanced metrical statistical analytics. Our C+H^3 rating is sitting at 52.3÷2...something remarkable for a team where 3.478 out of 7.1 recruits have reached the LMF threshold. However, you have to take into account that our 4 losses impacts the z variable in the ¥+a^2 (z-81) equation, where ¥ is the LMF formula diveded by the beta of yards per play. This theorem has been getting a lot of press lately among the statically affluent, which is rather interesting.


    Currently, ¥+a^2 (z-81)=23, which is admittedly surprising.

    Are you sure you ran that through the flux capacitor properly?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,297 Founders Club

    You've got to dig deeper into the advanced metrical statistical analytics. Our C+H^3 rating is sitting at 52.3÷2...something remarkable for a team where 3.478 out of 7.1 recruits have reached the LMF threshold. However, you have to take into account that our 4 losses impacts the z variable in the ¥+a^2 (z-81) equation, where ¥ is the LMF formula diveded by the beta of yards per play. This theorem has been getting a lot of press lately among the statically affluent, which is rather interesting.


    Currently, ¥+a^2 (z-81)=23, which is admittedly surprising.

    Plagerism but you put a much better effort than I did so I'll allow it
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    They lost to Oregon. Nothing else matters.
  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,950 Founders Club

    You've got to dig deeper into the advanced metrical statistical analytics. Our C+H^3 rating is sitting at 52.3÷2...something remarkable for a team where 3.478 out of 7.1 recruits have reached the LMF threshold. However, you have to take into account that our 4 losses impacts the z variable in the ¥+a^2 (z-81) equation, where ¥ is the LMF formula diveded by the beta of yards per play. This theorem has been getting a lot of press lately among the statically affluent, which is rather interesting.


    Currently, ¥+a^2 (z-81)=23, which is admittedly surprising.

    Awesome day for the statistically affluent.