Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#78,453
One thing the basketball committee got right was moving away from the RPI/SOS metric and adding the Quad wins system.

Ranked wins is a terrible stat to compare teams when 25 is an awful place to draw the line. The reality of CFB now is that realistically the division is more like Top 15, 25-50, and then everyone else. And Homefield in CFB is arguably even more of an advantage in football than is basketball, but that’s also not taken in account.
 
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Devo182 said:
That's not how SOS works at all.

Our opps overall have a lower-end winning% but we've played a tough schedule.

It's no coincidence the SEC teams on that list have the highest SOSs.
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That’s not right, the only statistic that is used is opponents W%. If you disagree, what metrics are used and what are the calculations?
Sos =(3 x opponents win%+
overall opponents wining %)/3.
So it is all based on opponents win%.
 
#78,461
#78,461
JCVol00 said:
The fact he isn’t in the heisman conversation is insane
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15 TDs his first 6 games. 6 TDs last 4.

His saving opportunity was needing a monster game vs UGA, a true national spotlight breakout type of performance.

Didn't happen.


Najee Harris 2020 is a nice comp. Granted he played an all P5 schedule. Vs SEC opps he averaged 2.18 TDs/game and 5.9 YPC. Samp is at 4.99 YPC and 1.7 TDs/SEC opponent.

Similar split vs P5 opponents.

VS all P5 opps:

Sampson
5.15 YPC
1.75 TDs/game

Harris
5.84 YPC
2.0 TDs/game

Harris was also used more in the passing game. 425 yards (110 for Samp so far) on the season and 4 extra TDs.


And Harris finished 5th in voting, while being on an undefeated championship team.
 
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#78,463
rikberry31 said:
That’s not right, the only statistic that is used is opponents W%. If you disagree, what metrics are used and what are the calculations?
Sos =(3 x opponents win%+
overall opponents wining %)/3.
So it is all based on opponents win%.
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The fact that SOS varies widely among publications tells you it isn't a set calculation. Let's just use common sense there.

Just as 1 example picked at random, Miami's opps are 2% higher than us, yet they're 37 spots below us.

It was posted earlier our opponents' W-L cumulative record is sub-100 nationally...and yet we have the #17 SOS according to the post you replied to...

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