Sagarin

[vtcwbuff]

Jeff Sagarin's Women's Basketball rankings are up. The new AAC is a combined 15-6.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Looks like he used last year's final rankings as his starting point.

Should take maybe 10 games or so before these rankings begin to have some validity.

 

[UcMiami]

Yeah a little bit weird in terms of schedule strength and such and obviously all just a bit premature.

 

[UcMiami]

Had to revive this because things are really wild now - proof that numbers and stats can lie if taken out of context. It is obviously too early for his formulas to work properly - his current top ten is totally wacky and while Uconn is still ranked #1, its record against top 50 is now 0-0 as both Maryland and Stanford have dropped out of his top 50 schools!
I am sure it will begin making sense by mid December, but right now it is just funny.

 

[VAMike23]

Hmmmmmmmm....

I think I'll check back with Jeff in January.

 

[Glenn]

The Massey ratings are also up. (masseyratings.com). His ratings seem to make more sense--possibly relies more on last year. He projects us winning tomorrow 77-62. I suspect it won't be that close.

 

[Fightin Choke]

Had to revive this because things are really wild now - proof that numbers and stats can lie if taken out of context. It is obviously too early for his formulas to work properly - his current top ten is totally wacky and while Uconn is still ranked #1, its record against top 50 is now 0-0 as both Maryland and Stanford have dropped out of his top 50 schools!
I am sure it will begin making sense by mid December, but right now it is just funny.

Yes, it's a little wacky right now. Notre Dame was ranked third after beating UNC-Wilmington, but after defeating #20 (in Sagarin's) Michigan State, Notre Dame dropped to 176th, while Michigan State dropped to 79th. And how does Sagarin have Baylor #2 when their SOS is ranked 329th? You're right, VAMike23, we should check back later. Maybe mid-December?

 

[Suebird10fan]

Sagarin is usually funky early on but i wonder if there is a flat out bug right now. Some really crazy results. But either way it will all be sorted out by year end.

 

[pap49cba]

One shouldn't have to wait months for a fancy ranking program to get sorted out. How does he do it for football?

 

[vtcwbuff]

I've followed Sagarin for many years. While it is true that his rankings accuracy improves as the sample number increases, I have never seen it screwed up like this. My guess - he hired the Obamacare software people to upgrade his site.

 

[geordi]

I've followed Sagarin for many years. While it is true that his rankings accuracy improves as the sample number increases, I have never seen it screwed up like this. My guess - he hired the Obamacare software people to upgrade his site.

Or more likely he left it up to a joint congressional committee to develop the ranking.

 

[baggerbob]

Stanford 147, Notre Dame 176, he must have had too much to drink when he put in his figures.