While the CFBMatrix has evolved into many different ways to evaluate teams using a level playing field of simple performance numbers, the core of the Matrix is to use these 3 simple numbers for predicting team game and total win outcomes.
Nearly 70% of all game outcomes in a season can be predicted 6 months in advance using the single CFBMatrix talent ranking for each team. Those games are then adjusted for where the game is played. I have been able to calculate at home/away value for some teams with long time coaches, for others they get a national value. In using the field adjustment, the pre-season picks for individual games can get into the low 80’s for accuracy. In game which the talent is close, the field will often determine the likelihood of a win or loss.
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Finally there is the coaching effect adjustment. For new coaches, I use a national average or past performance metrics to gauge what is going to happen to a particular team in any given season. For long term coaches they develop patterns of being + or – games below the predictions and some even have specific home and away patterns of how they are upset or pull off the upset.
I have never been able to show any other aspects of the game to have an influence on the outcome. Sure there are twenty twenty hindsight stats like turnover margin that we know has an influence on the end results, but to determine what those numbers will be year over year or game over game is silly to try. While the CFBMatrix is not perfect, it is a unique system of telling the story of teams, coaches and programs. It was also the #1 pre-season game picking publication in 2011 and the #1 national publication for picking the order of finish in the SEC, PAC12 and the Big Ten in 2011.
Thanks for entering the CFBMatrix. There is something here for every football fan from the novice armchair quarterbacks to the crazy hardcore diehards that need every angle available.
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Dave -
How ’bout putting up the Preseason Picks and Upset Alerts so we can have some material to work with while you work on the Best Bets, etc?
Thanks, Skip
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When do normally post the matrix predictions for all games with notes?
Thanks!! Want to get my picks in early this week. Whitetail season opens this weekend in Nebraska!! Keep up the good work.
Brent O’Mara
I usually start posting stuff on Wednesday. I will review and sometimes adjust during the rest of the week. Wishing you successful and safe hunting. My elk is already processed and in the freezer!
I waited 4 years for my first season tag and didn’t fill it.
“My elk is already processed and in the freezer!” Pfft, whatever. Send me a steak to prove it!
Do I need to bring some elk summer sausage to the Civil War Flat Tailgater? I had 17 elk within 40 yards when I dropped mine for this year. Called in many more. One buddy got a 5 point another had a whole herd within 50 yards and didn’t get an arrow flung.
I heard you’re a bad shot so good you have another time waisted …red neck from Texas