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
Williams                 8  0 276  74  0.494       1.899       1.713       1.570      0.0000      0.0000      13.826       1.989       1.151
Trinity CT               7  1 206  54  0.496       1.400       1.178       1.520      0.0000      0.0000      13.059       1.138       1.902
Middlebury               6  2 103  91  0.157       0.981       0.847       0.395      0.0000      0.0000      12.102      -0.375       1.164
Amherst                  5  3 146  90  0.223       0.614       0.393       0.474      0.0000      0.0000      11.385      -0.062       1.011
Tufts                    4  4  81 107 -0.058       0.265       0.016      -0.165      0.0000      0.0000      10.491      -0.872       0.541
Wesleyan                 3  5  91 163 -0.201      -0.156      -0.435      -0.445      0.0000      0.0000       9.682      -0.678      -0.212
Hamilton                 2  6  24  82 -0.288      -0.554      -0.820      -0.667      0.0000      0.0000       8.980      -2.002       0.668
Bowdoin                  2  6  49 151 -0.372      -0.593      -0.812      -0.977      0.0000      0.0000       8.797      -1.735      -0.218
Colby                    2  6  57 142 -0.450      -0.754      -0.911      -0.955      0.0000      0.0000       8.730      -1.503      -0.408
Bates                    1  7  87 166 -0.398      -1.123      -1.310      -0.750      0.0000      0.0000       7.972      -0.869      -0.631



Conference Strengths CONFERENCE W L PCT RNK RATING

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.190 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: Mon Dec 23 16:37:38 2019

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