Someone please explain the "FPI" and how the hell Alabama is 3rd and LSU is 4th

It stands for the fricking puss index

It's an absolutely meaningless ranking. That's all there is to it.

espn is all you need to know

Its a power rating. Not based on whats happened, or any result, but based on perceived strengths of teams. By all means get upset about it if you want

My stock response everytime someone jumps off the FPI bridge:

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People...

This is not a “ranking”, it’s a predictor for FUTURE games. It takes an average team, then values all others + or - based on how well they would do against the rest of the schedule.

LSU is behind Bama because they only have Auburn left to play, where LSU has A&M, as well as UGA. Statistically, a tougher road.

This is a betting tool. Y’all need to stop getting wrapped around this axle.

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Umm...LSU is ahead of Alabama too.

I’ve been all over the country this fall. The nation is lovin’ them some LSU this year.

Prediction to keep winning.

LSU has 2 games and Bama has 1
LSU plays a top 4 team and Bama doesn’t

Almost all of those ranking metrics have “parameters” installed, for example, where your maximum winning margin can only be between 7 and 32 points I.E. a 1 point win would count as a 7 point win in the algorithm, and a 72 point win would count as a 32 point win in the algorithm.

I have no fricking idea why all of them think that’s such a brilliant method to use when ranking teams, because it would mean that a team who’s won every game 100-0 would be ranked the same as a team who’s won every game 32-0. If you really dove deep into the methodology that these FPI systems use, you’d be fricking shocked at how stupid their logic is.

But it all honestly makes sense when you accept that they’re designed to place 132 teams within 5 spots of their “correct” ranking, not to place the top 5 teams exactly where they deserve to be.

ESPN is famous for creating polls and stats to promote their agendas when reality simply won’t cooperate.

fricking purely idiotic