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Originally Posted by transplant99
Actually i get that quite clearly thanks, its why i am wondering how it can be in any way accurate...especially when it comes up with OSU ahead of Wisconsin...makes zero sense. There has to be a built in bias to particular schools/conferences to allow for such a result...at least looking at it from a logical point of view. If that's the case, fine. I would suggest it a really bad idea, but nothing beyond that.
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There isn't a bias, it's just statistical weirdness: of the six computers, four of them rank Wisconsin above OSU. If you average out the rankings of all six computers, Wisconsin still ranks above OSU. So far so good.
However, the BCS formula throws out the high and low computer scores for each team. In this case, both Massey scores are thrown out (ranking Ohio State 21st and Wisconsin 19th, the low for both) and the Colley score for OSU (13th) and Sagarin score for Wisconsin (10th).
What you're left with is rankings of 16, 14, 14, 14 for OSU, and rankings of 18, 17, 13, 13 for Wisconsin. So now OSU has the better score. weird system, I agree. But not biased.