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Bowl Challenge Cup Standings

These are the final Bowl Challenge Cup Standings.

The MWC earned the 2009-2010 Bowl Challenge Cup and teh best record among all conferences.

Conference Wins Losses PCT ROS
MWC Wyoming
BYU
Utah
Air Force
TCU 0.800 0.714
Independents Navy 1.000 0.667
Big East Rutgers
Pittsburgh
South Florida
Connecticut
West Virginia
Cincinnati
0.667 0.625
SEC Georgia
Auburn
Florida
Mississippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
LSU
South Carolina
0.600 0.583
Big 10 Wisconsin
Penn St.
Ohio St.
Iowa
Minnesota
Northwestern
Michigan St.
0.571 0.555
Big 12 Nebraska
Oklahoma
Iowa St.
Texas Tech
Texas A&M
Missouri
Oklahoma St.
Texas
0.500 0.500
WAC Idaho
Boise St.
Fresno St.
Nevada
0.500 0.500
Sun Belt Middle Tenn. St. Troy 0.500 0.500
ACC Clemson
Virginia Tech
FSU
UNC
BC
Miami(FL)
Georgia Tech
0.429 0.444
C-USA SMU
Marshall
UCF
S. Miss
Houston
East Carolina
0.333 0.375
PAC 10 USC
UCLA
Oregon St.
California
Arizona
Stanford
Oregon
0.288 0.333
MAC C. Michigan Ohio
Temple
Bowling Green
N. Illinois
0.200 0.286

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Using PCT in with a finite sample size can give misleading results, especially when the sample size is small. If a conference wins all their bowl games they will have  PCT of 1.000, which if treated like a a probability would indicate that they would have certainty of winning the next one. This is clearly an error, and the reason that the official Challenge Cup Standings through out conferences with less than three games.

In the 1700's Pierre-Simon Laplace derived a formula for determining the best estimate of the probability of a pass/fail trial given a finite number of runs of this trial, called the Rule of Succession.

Wins and losses of football games can be treated as a pass/fail trial. In this context the formula becomes:

(Wins  + 1) / (Total Games + 2)

For large numbers of games this approaches the PCT but remains a touch closer to 0.500 in all cases.  It even allows an estimate of 0.500 if no games have been played.

This formula allows conferences with widely varying number of bowls to be compared more fairly. With this formula a 1-0 conference would be identical to a 3-1 conference and 2-0 equals 5-1.

In general, a record of W and L equals a record of N*(W+1)-1 and N*(L+1)-1 or any N.

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Please but that in none Mathmatician

I have no idea what any of that means

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by WVPiratesfan on Dec 21, 2009 7:54 PM EST reply actions  

ROS in non-mathematician.

Like PCT the conference with the higher number is the better conference.

Unlike PCT it is fixed to account for the fact that the number of games played impacts how good our estimate is.

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by utesfan100 on Dec 21, 2009 10:26 PM EST up reply actions  

I understand now

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by WVPiratesfan on Dec 22, 2009 12:02 AM EST up reply actions  

Good work on the ROS

I have never heard about that descriptive statistic before, but it provides for a much better comparison.

by Rocket Ship Science on Dec 28, 2009 1:09 PM EST reply actions  

Great use of stat, but maybe..

That’s a cool addition to account for the number of bowls a conference plays in (even though a lot of that is tied up in money). Seems like a final correction to be made after all the games had been played would be to factor in the competition the conference faced. This could be something as simple as multiplying a conference’s ROS by the average ROS of the conferences from which opponents came from. Such a correction would allow for playing (and even losing to) a high ROS conference opponent to potentially be more helpful than playing against a low ROS conference opponent.

Reason I say this is my own conference. I love the Big East and happy that we lately have had a respectable bowl win pct, but our competition outside of the top 2 bowls is not always as strong as other conferences.

by tdwv on Dec 30, 2009 4:27 PM EST reply actions  

I have ethical opjections to that.

I don’t like to use measures that are beyond the control of those being judged unless it is directly related to the task at hand.

When conferences begin being able to select the quality of their bowl appearances I might add that wrinkle.

Besides, the Colley Matrix does exactly what you are talking about, granted Wes Colley does not perform a bowl only run of his method.

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by utesfan100 on Dec 30, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought that Navy was the only indie that made a bowl, so wouldn't the ROS for the indies be 1.000

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by WVPiratesfan on Jan 1, 2010 3:20 PM EST reply actions  

The PCT is 1.000

With 1 win in 1 game the ROS is:

(1+1) / (1+2) = 2/3 ~ 0.667

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by utesfan100 on Jan 1, 2010 4:39 PM EST up reply actions  

That Bowl Challenge Cup is going to look mighty nice on the desk of the MWC commissioner when Automatic Qualifier discussion rolls round in a few years.

by HawkeyedFrog on Jan 4, 2010 7:46 AM EST reply actions  

This will be the MWC's third since the cup was started in 2002

The ACC is second with 1.5 cup victories.

The MWC won in 2004-2005 and 2007-2008. The ACC and Big 12 tied in 2005-2006 at 5-3.

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by utesfan100 on Jan 4, 2010 10:41 AM EST up reply actions  

It's a huge accomplishment but our bowl tie-ins are a big reason

Our scenarios are typically like the 2008 Vegas Bowl: 10-2 BYU vs 7-5 Arizona (although we lost that one, it’s how most matchups are)

This season was different though. The 4 MWC wins, were all underdogs. The 1 loss was a favorite.

by Michael Rueckert on Jan 5, 2010 10:58 PM EST up reply actions  

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