Month: October 2009
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How Slicing Meat is like Writing a Paper
One of the many wonderful things about my marriage is that my wife and I like doing complementary chores. Actually, to be accurate we don’t mind doing complementary chores, but that’s good enough. Heather prefers cleaning the bathroom to taking out the trash. I prefer the opposite. Heather would rather clean the dishes than cook…
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CompuDrew Week 2 – College Football Ratings
One of the biggest controversies of the BCS is that the computers cannot take margin of victory into account. This means the Texas blowout of Missouri (41-7) would be given the same weight even if the Horns beat them by two points on a last second touchdown, or needed a blocked field goal as time…
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CompuDrew – My college football computer ratings
Do you want to know an intelligent, passionate fan’s perspective on college football? Go somewhere else. In the meantime, here is my computer rating system (my next post will be about my completely reasonable playoff proposal–even Lee Corso is appeased). CompuDrew – Andrew Ishak’s computer ratings This rating system is based on team record, strength…