All Division I Football, and Men's and Women's Basketball
Welcome back, sports fans, to our 589th episode on this platform. We do not count the previous email version which could not have been more than 100-150. At first it was just the rankings from week 4 until rivalry week (10 per year), then we added predictions (so 20 per year). No matter, officially, we …
Read More “Men’s Basketball or Which Conference Are the Strongest?”
Welcome back, sports fans, as we shift from the women to the men. Monday had the Top 363 followed by the conference comparison and we will be following the same pattern over the next two days. Finding the men’s top team has proven difficult this season. While the GCR uses an algorithm, even it seems …
Welcome back, sports fans, to our January edition of Conference Comparison for the women. We now have data from about 75% of the regular season so the teams are separating as well as the conferences. The cream is rising to the top. ….. The average women’s team has 11.7 wins against 10.3 losses for a …
Read More “Women’s Basketball or How Good (or Bad) Are the Conferences?”
Welcome back, sports fans, as we start our week with the latest WBB ranking. We had some really good games such as the surprisingly dominant upset by Mississippi St (16-7/45) over Tennessee (14-5/17) putting MSST into the bubble. Not to mention Southern Cal (13-9/49), who is without JuJu Watkins this entire season, toppling Iowa (18-4/6). …
Read More “Women’s Basketball or The Top 363 For Lucky Week 13!”
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we take a look into how “accurate” the GCR is, or put another way, how “accurate” the human polls are. We truly do not mean to demonstrate any hubris by the second half of that sentence. Human polls have been around for decades, much longer than any computer poll, …
Read More “College Basketball or Is the GCR Consistent with the Polls?”
Welcome back to latest episode which is all about Division I Men’s Basketball. There are 365 teams in D1, one for every day of the year, and we will count them down (or up). Yesterday, Michigan (19-1/2) took down Nebraska (20-1/5), and even though previous top-spot holder Duke continued to win, they took a hit …
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we focus on the women’s game today. Last week, we talked about the new metric, RPI Factor (RPIF), which is a new predictive metric here at the old GCR. We described it in detail on Friday using the men’s data, but the same rules apply here. We now have …
Welcome back, sports fans, to episode 581 since we began publishing in this forum. The GCR started as a boredom-killing exercise during a slow time at work and mental challenge to see if I (G here) could figure out how to rank teams. It was football only and just the FBS (I think about 120 …
Read More “Men’s Basketball Exploration or Two Prediction Models, Really?”
Welcome back, sports fans, to the bittersweet last planned football post for the season. There are a bunch of conference changes coming up over the offseason as the P12 reloads and those conferences who will lose teams trying to keep their numbers up. Look for a complete analysis on that craziness when the basketball season …
Read More “G’s Exploration or Which Conferences Were the Best This Season?”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to the latest Top 365 for Men’s Basketball. First, a teaser. In the ranking below, there is a new column labeled RPIF or RPI Factor. Last week, we talked a good bit about why some teams have a higher or lower GCR Rank compared to the GCR RPI. To sum …
