Explanation: Each team is listed with its record, overall score differential, and six ratings. Brief explanations of the ratings follow.
Because these ratings contain no prejudices regarding team or conference strengths, they tend to be quite inaccurate early in the seasons. College football appears to take at least 5 games per team before even remotely reasonable ratings are produced; acceptable ratings are produced with 8 games per team; excellent ratings unfortunately require 14 games per team.

Rankings by division: Overall I-A I-AA II III NAIA NESCAC


Full Ranking


Unconnected teams:
                                               STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI     RPI         POLL       OFFENSE     DEFENSE 
TEAM                     W  L  PF  PA  SCHED  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
Bates                    2  7 173 236 -0.035      -0.415      -0.490      -0.306      0.0000      0.0000       8.764      -0.259      -0.353
Amherst                  2  7 109 238 -0.120      -0.454      -0.538      -0.727      0.0000      0.0000       8.576      -1.201      -0.253
Wesleyan                 8  1 218 133  0.091       0.907       0.747       0.444      0.0000      0.0000      11.286       0.112       0.775
Middlebury               6  3 217 183  0.028       0.522       0.326       0.187      0.0000      0.0000      10.437       0.131       0.243
Colby                    4  5 196 172  0.049      -0.002      -0.107       0.147      0.0000      0.0000       9.680      -0.099       0.393
Trinity CT               7  2 280 144  0.093       0.690       0.527       0.594      0.0000      0.0000      10.940       0.615       0.573
Bowdoin                  3  6 186 233 -0.022      -0.230      -0.314      -0.222      0.0000      0.0000       9.052      -0.158      -0.285
Tufts                    7  2 218 170  0.070       0.761       0.577       0.299      0.0000      0.0000      10.887       0.169       0.429
Hamilton                 1  8  99 233 -0.128      -0.787      -0.781      -0.685      0.0000      0.0000       8.133      -1.250      -0.120
Williams                 5  4 236 190  0.075       0.345       0.103       0.269      0.0000      0.0000      10.078       0.336       0.202



Conference Strengths CONFERENCE W L PCT RNK RATING

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.165 points in main ratings
     0.024 points in improved RPI
Average of 6.20 points per score
Predict score:
Team Strength vs. Time Plot:
posted: Sun Dec  8 07:36:14 2024

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