Thursday, January 11, 2018

Sagarin Stuff

With the last college football games in the books, here are the final "unbiased" Sagarin Ratings for Ivy League teams. Sagarin writes that these ratings are "unbiased in that they consider only results from the season in question. Starting ratings have no bearing at all."
92 Yale
122 Columbia
127 Dartmouth
146 Princeton
153 Penn
190 Harvard
195 Cornell
212 Brown

Non-conference strength of schedule per these same Sagarin's unbiased ratings, from toughest to easiest:
CORNELL 165.3
120 Delaware
157 Colgate
219 Bucknell

YALE 205.0
197 Holy Cross
202 Lehigh
216 Fordham

BROWN 205.3
167 URI
199 Bryant
250 Stetson

PRINCETON 206.7
139 San Diego
233 Lafayette
248 Georgetown

HARVARD 216.0
167 URI
233 Lafayette
248 Georgetown

DARTMOUTH 220.3
197 Holy Cross
214 Sacred Heart
250 Stetson

COLUMBIA 234.0
211 Wagner
243 Marist
248 Georgetown

Incomplete
PENN 180.0
158 Central Connecticut
202 Lehigh
NR Ohio Dominican (Division II)

Here are the standard Sagarin Ratings, which take into account starting ratings and schedule strength:
123 Yale
165 Princeton
168 Dartmouth
172 Penn
181 Columbia
192 Harvard
213 Cornell
238 Brown