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Week 2 SP+ rankings

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4 minutes ago, Triple B said:

There's no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb people who ask questions. Hopefully they'll answer yours or mine ...

Bing AI said:

In college football, SP+ stands for “Success Plus Per Play”. It is a metric developed by Bill Connelly, a college football writer and analyst, to measure the efficiency of a team’s performance on both offense and defense 12. The SP+ ratings are adjusted for the strength of the opponent and the tempo of the game, making it a more accurate predictor of future performance than other ranking systems 1.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

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8 minutes ago, Triple B said:

There's no such thing as a dumb question, only dumb people who ask questions. Hopefully they'll answer yours or mine ...

Haha yes I am out of the loop on this one. I would think we rank higher but it seems they use last year as a holdover.

Maybe we sneak up on some people 🤘

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5 minutes ago, Brad said:

Bing AI said:

In college football, SP+ stands for “Success Plus Per Play”. It is a metric developed by Bill Connelly, a college football writer and analyst, to measure the efficiency of a team’s performance on both offense and defense 12. The SP+ ratings are adjusted for the strength of the opponent and the tempo of the game, making it a more accurate predictor of future performance than other ranking systems 1.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

So Bing, what does adjusted for the tempo of the game mean ...... and is this a rival to Sagarin?

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13 minutes ago, Triple B said:

So Bing, what does adjusted for the tempo of the game mean ...... and is this a rival to Sagarin?

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In college football, adjusted for the tempo of the game means adjusting metrics to account for the tempo of the game. It is a pretty basic adjustment that most CFB fans understand.  This question is somewhat disappointing to a machine as intelligent as I am.  In fact, if there were a Bing AI Jr., I would have submitted this question to him/her/them. Furthermore, please direct any follow up questions to a regular search tool. You're getting too deep into this ranking system most consider to be akin to a joke.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other (non SP+) questions.

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49 minutes ago, Brad said:

Bing AI said:

In college football, adjusted for the tempo of the game means adjusting metrics to account for the tempo of the game. It is a pretty basic adjustment that most CFB fans understand.  This question is somewhat disappointing to a machine as intelligent as I am.  In fact, if there were a Bing AI Jr., I would have submitted this question to him/her/them. Furthermore, please direct any follow up questions to a regular search tool. You're getting too deep into this ranking system most consider to be akin to a joke.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other (non SP+) questions.

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If you finish first in the SP+ ranking but don't go to the playoffs are you a national champion? Asking for a friend...

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2 hours ago, Brad said:

Bing AI said:

In college football, adjusted for the tempo of the game means adjusting metrics to account for the tempo of the game. It is a pretty basic adjustment that most CFB fans understand.  This question is somewhat disappointing to a machine as intelligent as I am.  In fact, if there were a Bing AI Jr., I would have submitted this question to him/her/them. Furthermore, please direct any follow up questions to a regular search tool. You're getting too deep into this ranking system most consider to be akin to a joke.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other (non SP+) questions.

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3 hours ago, Rocky Style said:

Dumb question but what does SP+ stand for?

 

In a single sentence, it's a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. I created the system at Football Outsiders in 2008, and as my experience with both college football and its stats has grown, I have made quite a few tweaks to the system.

SP+ is indeed intended to be predictive and forward-facing. It is not a résumé ranking that gives credit for big wins or particularly brave scheduling -- no good predictive system is. It is simply a measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football. If you're lucky or unimpressive in a win, your rating will probably fall. If you're strong and unlucky in a loss, it will probably rise.

 

NOTE: This early in the season, it counts some of last year's games.

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1 hour ago, Grateful Dad said:

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I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave...

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I don't need any particular ratings to tell me we are nearer the bottom than the top; however, we can change that.

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