Analysis Featured Lessons from picking the 2022 CFB Season As we reach the end of the 2021-22 college football season (the national championship game is unfolding on my TV as I type this), I wanted to take a look back at my performance in the College Football Data predictions contest. Minimum 400 games picked (not counting the NCG, but
Talking Tech Featured Talking Tech: Applying LRMC Rankings to College Football, Part One While SRS can go a long way towards calculating a difficult problem like schedule strength, it has its pitfalls. Logistic-Regression/Markov Chain (LRMC) ratings provide an alternate approach.
Talking Tech Talking Tech: Applying LRMC Rankings to College Football, Part Two The previous post in this series covered how LRMC works and its mathematical implementation. Now it's time to take things a step further and apply this concept to ranking college football teams.