Thursday, June 2, 2016

Fun College Football Analytics

http://cfbmatrix.com/

This is a really good website to judge some of the questions regarding coaches and teams.
Specifically, I like the coaching rankings based on winning or losing against teams with more or less talent.

As you would expect two of the questionable fellows are on the losing end.
The author calls it Anti Coach Effect of the Year-2015, it is based on plus 1 for winning a game as underdog and negative one for losing. 

Charlie Strong leads the way with a negative 5.  But as the author comments, that is with a win over a Baylor team without a QB and it third or fourth string RB. 
His quote
"Charlie Strong finishes at -5 games after barely beating a hapless Baylor team down to running only with a wide receiver at QB.  He is following in the footsteps of two time winner Mack Brown."
That is priceless and shameful. 

Les Miles finished ahead of Malzahn and Spurrier they were plus 4, even though favoring that Gamecock team even early seemed ridiculous to most SEC fans.  Malzahn deserved his -4. 
Les and Sumlin sat at -2, yet for some reason I think Les had much more talent that the Aggies.  The Ags were 4-4 in conference and LSU 5-3.

On the positive side, the SEC was led by Saban, Freeze and Mullen. I had forgotten that Bama replaced basically the entire offense. But, Mullen had a huge turnover and far less talent. Freeze loss at Memphis State is still ridiculous. 

Nationally the winners were Ferentz, Leach and Whittingham.  I give it to Leach. 

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