NCAA Division 1A Football

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Commentary	The 2011 Schedule July 17 - Interconference schedules and the annual look at schedule topologies. Games of Interest August 7 - Matchups in the top half of the field. (Updated 3 Sep) Week 2 update Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 (oops) Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 2011 Intended SOS August 7 - Not that we need another one, but here's a look at SOS based upon the notion of game interest. (Updated 3 Sep) 2011 Schedule Topology - part 2 August 17 - The incidence matrix and measures of connectivity. 2011 Schedule Topology - part 3 August 21 - The incidence matrix viewed edgewise. A Resume-based meta-rating October 7 - A visual comparison of best wins and worse losses Conference comparisons October 25 - Different looks at conference-vs-conference comparisons Schedule Topology Ratings Effects December 24 - What is it about these teams that is not like the other teams?
Reference	Division 1 Standings Division 1 Season by week Interconference Results Schedules and results for all teams This is consolidated and indexed version of Dr. Peter Wolfe's schedules and scores pages. Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision Division 2 Division 3 non-NCAA (includes NAIA and the teams in neither) Division and Conference Affiliations For all teams, based upon Dr. Wolfe's NCAA and NAIA Divisional and Conference Affiliations page. Inter-division results Home, road, and neutral scoring averages for games between teams from different divisions. Division 1 is considered to consist of three "divisions" - "BCS" includes all the teams in Football Bowl Subdivision conferences whose champion is an Automatic Qualifier, "nBCS" are the teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision who aren't in AQ conferences, and "1AA" are the teams in the Football Championship Subdivision. "D2", "D3" and "NAIA" are self-explanatory.
Links	Kenneth Massey's College Football Ratings Comparison page. Analysis: Pre-Season Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 WRRV Week 5 WRRV Week 6 WRRV Week 7 WRRV Week 8 WRRV Week 9 WRRV Week 10 WRRV Week 11 WRRV Week 12 WRRV Week 13 WRRV Week 14 WRRV Week 19 WRRV WRRV is the Weighted Retrodictive Ranking Violation David Wilson's Rankings List. College Football Data Warehouse Where to go when you get old enough that your memory fails or you're too young to remember what happened before you were born. NCAA Stats home The horse's mouth, so to speak. Ranking summaries by Team Game Summaries cfbstats.com Splits and situational stats - inside box scores
Ratings	ISR Boyd Nation's Iterative Strength Rating ISOV Iterated Strength of Victory (ISR with SOV-based adjustments for each game) Normalized Scoring Stats Scoring data adjusted by opponents' strength Directed Games Graph These are not "ratings" per se, but count and make visible all of the "A beat B beat C beat ..." chains in the current games graph. Second Order Winning Percentage (% of teams that the given team has a shorter or stronger A⇒... chain to other teams than the other way around.) Weighted by the length and strength of the A⇒ paths to opponents. FBS-only SOWP FBS-only WtdWP

Often people who are not familiar with the nature and limitations of statistical methods tend to expect too much of the rating system. Ratings provide merely a comparison of performances, no more and no less. The measurement of the performance of an individual is always made relative to the performance of his competitors and both the performance of the player and of his opponents are subject to much the same random fluctuations. The measurement of the rating of an individual might well be compared with the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. Arpad Elo in Chess Life, 1962

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. Chuck Reid