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...need any more proof that it’s time to deemphasize the human polls, just look at the body that’s ramping up its support of them—the BCS. When you see that mess headed your direction, you know it’s probably best to abandon ship...
...illustrate how out of touch the voters in these two polls are, let’s surf on over to I-AA.org, a site which has compiled a rating formula know as the Gridiron Power Index (GPI). The GPI is the cheap, generic knockoff of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) formula, as it uses the rankings from eight computers and three human polls—the two mentioned above and the one from AnyGivenSaturday.com, which currently has Harvard sitting 24th...
Four of the eight computers used in the GPI have Harvard ranked in the top 10 in I-AA. If the GPI used the Sagarin rating that the BCS employs—the Elo-Chess category, which doesn’t include the ever contentious margin of victory—Harvard would be ranked third in I-AA and 48th in all of Division I. (Obviously, I don’t intend to defend the latter statistic, but rather I included it to illustrate the ridiculous nature of some of the constraints of the BCS system, such as removing margin...
...He’s won with Harvard,” captain Noah Welch said. “So when he walks into the locker room he’s going to expect to beat the BCs and the BUs, and I expect it to rub off on our team...
...He’s won with Harvard,” captain Noah Welch said. “So when he walks into the locker room he’s going to expect to beat the BCs and the BUs, and I expect it to rub off on our team...