Congrove has Houston ranked #2

[billybud]

VT..after scheduling Boise, Alabama, and LSU to open the season, got smart...they scheduled cup cakes.

I expect more teams to do the same if they have a middling conference strength...that's all that it takes. A loss counts more than the reward for a win over a top team.

[RazorHawk]

I think the big problel is when you tweak the system to make it reflect what you think is right. It turns something that was created objectively into something subjective.

Well, in this case the thing I want to change is that for a game score (that takes in losing teams rank, home or away, and MOV) I only take the rank of the losing team on the day they played.

For example...Team A beats Team B in the second week of the season and in that week Team B was ranked 12th. Going through the year, Team B, which was projected as having a good year goes into a slump and ends up ranked 74th at the end of the year, yet Team A still gets credit for beating a 12th ranked team. That is where it gets time consuming because you have to go back and adjust the rank every week given the new results...makes my hand cramp just thinking about it, but it is a more accurate reflection of what team A faced.

I have contemplated this for years, and knew it would be a better system, but, like most people on here who do this for love of the game, we also have real lives that don't let us spend 2 days in front of our computer playing with football rankings. So, I opted for quicker but less accurate. It still works pretty well, but not as good as I know it could be. I figure as long as I stick with objective data I'm pretty safe.

Actually adjusting the team ranking would be very simple. All you would need to do is have a defined range with the rankings, this would have to be set up with two columns sorted alpha. Each week the ranking could be updated there. Then a simple VLOOKUP formula would bring the updated team rankings into your equation.

And yes I like Math.