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Why is Georgia ranked so low?

admin_SPRS — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:17:28 +0000

After Week 4 of the college football season, the defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs are ranked 38 with 2.5868 points in the Superior Performance Ranking System (SPRS). You may ask yourself, “How can that be?”

Georgia has played teams that were ranked 133, 132, 77, and 123 at the time by SPRS. Using the calculation method on the Description page, one can perform the calculations manually to determine how many points they received for each game, with the total for all four games being only 2.5868. The ranking of their opponents being so low has worked against Georgia even though they won by sizeable margins in three of the four games. The game against South Carolina, which was ranked 77 by SPRS at the time, saw Georgia come from behind to only win by 10 points.

SPRS does not rank teams based on past performance or current potential. Why should SPRS rank teams based on past performance or current potential? It shouldn’t. SPRS ranks teams based on current performance using score margin and current opponent rank, which eliminates bias that is not current performance based.

Do you agree or disagree with the way SPRS ranks teams? Please feel free to share your opinion by submitting a comment.

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Are preseason rankings appropriate?

admin_SPRS — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:04:38 +0000

Are preseason rankings appropriate for a college football ranking system? If so, please explain how they are appropriate? If not, then please justify your position.

If the preseason rankings are just an expression of the ranking system’s opinion of how the teams will perform during the season, then there is no harm in publishing them. However, if they affect the rankings during the season instead of how the teams are actually performing, then the ranking system seems to have a bias built into it which should be avoided.

SPRS (Superior Performance Ranking System) does not publish a preseason ranking because there are no results before the season which the system can use to determine what the rankings should be. In fact SPRS does not publish rankings until after Week 4 of the season because the system needs sufficient performance data in order to provide a ranking that is considered accurate.

SPRS does not depend on past performance or current potential to determine what it considers an accurate ranking. The ranking system uses score margin and current opponent ranking as a measure of performance to determine what points a team earns each week.

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