What is that, the 700 series? Sweet.
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 dinner each night. Luckily, I like cooking. We have complementary “least-worst” chore preferences and that suits us well.
But one chore that I love–I mean LOVE–is grocery shopping. I could shop every day if I had the time. I love picking out food for my family, trying free samples, and mentally putting together meals. My wife is a self-professed proceduralist; like in her day job, she prefers chores that involve following tried and true methods in a linear fashion. As for me, I enjoy the creativity of shopping and cooking. Except for my trip on Monday. Here’s how an enjoyable, efficient experience can go downhill in a hurry, and at the same time remind me of the academic paper-writing process.
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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 expired to escape with a victory.
So you’ll notice that close victories by Iowa and Alabama haven’t hurt their standings among the BCS computers. For example, Jeff Sagarin still has Iowa at #1 in his BCS rankings, but in his own personal rankings that he claims are more accurate (because they take margin of victory into account), Iowa stands at #12. A converse example is Texas;
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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 of schedule (SOS) and conference strength of schedule. Margin of victory is not taken into account. Measurements I threw by the wayside: team honor, perseverance, handsomeness of quarterback, if the team likes to “just win”, fight song, things written on eye black.
Here’s the formula:
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