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#1
Looking for some inpuit on creating power rankings for this years NFL and College football season. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
creating power rankings
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#4
There are literally thousands out there. Start with the obvious tout-like tools ESPN, USA Today, CBS. Check out stuff like bleacherreport, sbnation, oddsshark, Anthon. You'll eventually come across individual team sites like Lombardi Ave for the GB Packers. Tons of small-time great little sites like Biff runs one called Armadillo. Possibilities are limitless and like said earlier you can eventually refine your Power Rankings to get down to your specific interests. Passing game, Ground game, Offense, Defense, First halfs, Second halfs, whatever your interest.
GL rook.
~~~~~ZOSO~~~~~
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#5
I've been creating my own numbers for almost 10 years.
Let me recommend a free resource.
Football Outsiders.
They have a ton of advanced metrics.
My simple recipe?
I rank each of the 130 teams from on a scale of 0.1-13, in a mutliple of categories--- Offensive Rating, Defensive Rating, Coaching, QB play, Recruiting, I also use previous win totals---
When done, I have each team ranked 1-130.
This is where art and science meet. My top ranked team has a score of absolute zero (Alabama), my lowest ranked team (UTEP) has a value of 54. Thereby, I would make Alabama a 54 point favorite vs. UTEP on a neutral field.
It is the values in between 0 and 54 that you have to create/determine. Also, I use my own home field value but Phil Steele in his yearbook has Home Field values already calculated for each team on their individual pages.
I can get into a lot more detail if you like.
But you can use ESPN's QBR to rank each QB, you can use coaching records to rank the coaches, you can go to Football Outsiders and get all their free info, and Phil Steele has a list of Offensive Line returning starts, % yards returning, % of tackles returning. From all that you can create your own set of #'s.
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