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November 4, 2009

This week’s BCS shuffle exposes computer polls’ flaws

This week’s BCS shuffle exposes computer polls’ flaws It’s Week 3 in the BCS poll, which can only mean the standard deviations and quartiles and the infamous Sagarin ELO-Chess formula is now officially unbiased in the computer poll portion of our program. My kingdom for a dork translator. Fortunately, this is also the moment where…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 4, 2009

Georgia Tech is No. 1 among college football’s one-loss teams

Georgia Tech is No. 1 among college football’s one-loss teams Division I-A’s seven one-loss teams, the almost-Magnificent Seven, face a quandary: celebrate their success, or dwell on the bad day (or night) keeping them out of the national championship race. Whatever the perspective, they’ve got us curious. So implementing the same statistical analysis used in…