Friday, April 1, 2011

Best Home Field in College Football.

ESPN insiders had a crazy article on the Best Home Fields in College Football written by
Brian Fremeau a Football Outsiders columnist.  Many disputes immediately kicked up and not just from SEC fans.
Only ONE _ SEC school was in the Top 10 Nationally.    Mississippi State????  Huh?  Cowbells forever!
The formula he used compared actual performance versus expected performance to isolate that answer and extract home-field advantage -- and separately, "road-field" disadvantage -- for each team.  The results were predictable for several teams, and very surprising for others.

LSU was rated lowest home field advantage in SEC and 12th from the bottom in America.  
His Bottom 10 include Texas and USC, he actually compared them to Duke.  
Another asinine judgement--His top road teams - Northwestern, followed by Bowling Green, Tulane and USC.  How did this get published?

Well, I was about to do some formulas when he ESPN Blog man figured up the best home field in the SEC only using SEC against nationally ranked Non-Conference opponents and SEC opponents.

                                   2003-2010 seasons
1. LSU: 27-7 (.794)
2. Georgia: 22-9 (.710)
3. Florida: 21-9 (.700) 
4. Auburn: 23-10 (.697)
5. Alabama: 22-12 (.647)
6. Tennessee: 21-13 (.618) 
7. South Carolina: 18-17 (.514)
8. Arkansas:17-17 (.500)
9. Ole Miss: 14-18 (.437)
10. Kentucky: 11-23 (.323)
10. Mississippi State: 11-23 (.323)  
12. Vanderbilt: 6-27 (.182)

J

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