Thursday, September 8, 2011

Week 2: Top 25 -- RBA


Through games of Saturday, September 4th.

[ Note: Eddie is off doing work-related stuff for much of this week, so I'm updating his rankings for him. --Justin ]

Rank +/- Team WinPct SoS Adjusted
Off. Def. Pace
1 -- Stanford 1.000 0.548 17 26.9 1 9.2 4 83.8 47
2 +1 Alabama 1.000 0.549 16 24.1 9 7.4 1 78.9 120
3 +2 Boise St. 0.992 0.459 96 26.3 3 9.2 5 84.6 29
4 -2 TCU 0.983 0.463 92 25.5 4 12.1 24 84.2 39
5 +2 Auburn 0.974 0.543 25 24.6 7 16.9 68 79.5 117
6 -- Ohio St. 0.974 0.529 50 23.4 12 7.9 2 79.8 113
7 +1 Oklahoma 0.957 0.541 28 23.3 13 8.9 3 85.4 18
8 +3 LSU 0.948 0.549 15 22.0 16 9.7 8 80.4 111
9 -5 Oregon 0.941 0.534 40 25.3 5 10.9 14 87.9 3
10 -1 Iowa 0.930 0.525 55 17.8 40 10.5 13 81.9 95
11 -1 Wisconsin 0.922 0.536 38 26.3 2 14.1 43 81.1 106
12 +5 Oklahoma St. 0.920 0.551 13 23.8 10 14.4 47 86.0 10
13 +1 Nebraska 0.912 0.530 48 19.9 24 10.0 12 83.5 59
14 +1 Arkansas 0.911 0.570 1 25.2 6 13.2 35 82.6 81
15 -3 West Virginia 0.911 0.539 30 16.4 58 9.9 10 82.8 78
16 -3 Virginia Tech 0.896 0.530 49 23.7 11 10.0 11 79.1 118
17 +1 Florida 0.894 0.553 10 21.5 17 9.6 7 80.9 107
18 -2 Florida St. 0.872 0.553 11 19.8 26 9.3 6 83.2 67
19 -- South Carolina 0.852 0.543 26 24.2 8 16.1 62 79.0 119
20 NA Pittsburgh 0.850 0.528 52 17.2 49 12.0 23 82.1 90
21 -1 North Carolina St. 0.839 0.529 51 19.3 28 12.8 32 83.5 55
22 +2 Mississippi St. 0.839 0.560 4 20.1 22 11.8 20 81.2 104
23 -1 Missouri 0.814 0.525 54 15.5 66 9.9 9 86.9 7
24 -3 Georgia 0.809 0.553 12 22.5 14 12.3 27 79.7 114
25 -2 Nevada 0.807 0.467 88 22.5 15 15.2 56 85.1 21


New entries: Pittsburgh.

Dropped out: Notre Dame.

Compared to the TFG top 25, we can see where RBA takes a slightly different approach. It's not necessarily how you do against a weak opponent, it's how you do against all opponents. You can give up 38 points to a horrible offense, but if you also give up 38 points against a good opponent, too, then RBA won't punish you (see: Auburn). In short, teams that won (Boise, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas, Florida) went up, while those that lost or did poorly against so-so competition (TCU, Oregon, Georgia) fared the worst. RBA has less sense of a "good win" than TFG, and it shows.

As with TFG, it'll take a few weeks before RBA really catches on to what's happening this season. Until then, expect a few random picks to make no sense whatsoever. Until then, there's Tuesday Trivia and our regular predictions.

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