re: The Big 10 and ACC are setting the stage for locking up 3/4 playoff spots

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However, I’m trying to address what I perceive to be a glaring weakness in using our quasi-objective metrics with an improvement. You don’t seem won over by my idea of an improvement, and frankly it won’t matter past this season as I doubt we have to cross this bridge again, but I do think we need a fair and quasi-objective way to normalize between dramatically different sample sizes and I’m not sure any algorithm used in Massey really does that at all

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Maybe, and I apologize if this doesn't apply to you, but it seems that this is something new that is focused around the outcome of this season. I haven't been here long enough to know one way or the other, but I'd wonder if the same fervor against the Big Ten and Pac 12 would exist of the roles were reversed.

I'm not opposed to improvement. No good data scientist would be opposed to it. I'm opposed to alterations for the sake of different outcomes.

I don't know what Massey and Sagarin do to handle a disparity in number of games played, but I'd suspect it isn't nothing.