From: gidi@Hilbert.Stanford.EDU (Gidi Avrahami)
Subject: Re: What makes a team #1?
Organization: Brotherhood Of Breath
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:22:44 GMT

dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown) writes:
>This would
>be an easy, objective figure too -- just look at the 
>win-loss records of the teams' opponents.  

It's still only a first-order, second-order thing.  One opponent
may be 7-2 against weak teams, another may be 6-3-1 against strong
competition.  If you want to take all this into account, you need 
a power ranking formula.  But I don't suppose you'd like that...

>Can somebody please post the results of this ?!!  

I did it last week.  Did you miss it?  Oh, never mind.  Here's
the updated version:

Note:  Games against the team in question are discounted.  A '+'
signifies a win, '-' a loss and '=' a tie.  Only division I-A games.

              Sum of opp's
Team  Record     records     List of opponents
=======================================================================
Mia   7-0     31-20-5 0.598  +Iowa:4-5 +AZ:6-1-1 +FSU:8-0 +PSU:6-2
                             +TCU:2-5-1 +VaTc:1-5-1 +WV:4-2-2
AL    9-0     33-35-1 0.486  +Vand:3-4 +SoMs:6-3 +Ark:2-4-1 +LaTc:4-3
                             +SCar:4-4 +Tln:2-6 +Tenn:5-2 +Miss:6-2
                             +LSU:1-7
TAMU  9-0     29-41   0.414  +Stanf:7-2 +LSU:1-7 +Tls:3-5 +MO:0-7
                             +TxTc:3-5 +Rice:3-3 +Bayl:5-3 +SMU:3-4
                             +Lvl:4-5
=======================================================================
Mich  8-0-1   32-39   0.451  =ND:7-1 +OkSt:3-4 +Hou:3-4 +Iowa:4-5
                             +MiSt:4-4 +Ind:5-3 +Minn:1-7 +Purd:3-5
                             +NW:2-6
=======================================================================
Wash  8-1     42-24-2 0.632  +AzSt:4-4 +Wisc:4-4 +Nebr:6-0 +USC:5-1-1
                             +Cal:4-4 +OR:5-3 +Pcf:2-4 +Stanf:7-2
                             -AZ:5-2-1
Nebr  6-1     33-20-1 0.620  +Utah:5-3 -Wash:7-1 +AzSt:4-4 +OkSt:3-4
                             +MO:0-7 +CO:7-0-1 +Kans:7-1
FSU   8-1     39-26-1 0.598  +Duke:2-5 +Clems:4-3 +NCSt:6-1-1 +WF:4-2
                             -Mia:6-0 +UNC:6-2 +GaTc:4-3 +UVa:5-3 +MD:2-7
Hwi   7-1     35-31   0.530  +OR:5-3 +AF:7-2 +BYU:6-3 -Utah:4-4 +Frsno:6-3
                             +UNLV:3-4 +UTEP:1-7 +CoSt:3-5
Syr   8-1     30-35-3 0.463  +ECar:4-4 +TX:4-2 -OhSt:6-2 +Lvl:4-5
                             +Rutg:4-3 +WV:4-2-2 +Tmpl:0-7 +Pitt:3-5
                             +VaTc:1-5-1
=======================================================================
ND    7-1-1   40-31-1 0.562  +NW:2-6 =Mich:8-0 +MiSt:4-4 +Purd:3-5
                             -Stanf:6-3 +Pitt:3-5 +BYU:6-3 +Navy:1-5
                             +BC:7-0-1
BC    7-1-1   29-37-2 0.441  +Rutg:4-3 +NW:2-6 +Navy:1-5 +MiSt:4-4
                             =WV:4-3-1 +PSU:6-2 +Tln:2-6 +Tmpl:0-7
                             -ND:6-1-1
CO    7-1-1   29-38   0.433  +CoSt:3-5 +Bayl:5-3 +Minn:1-7 +Iowa:4-5
                             +MO:0-7 =OK:5-3 +KsSt:3-3 -Nebr:5-1 +OkSt:3-4
=======================================================================
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