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Old 11-22-2005, 11:10 PM
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Default Re: Top Conferences Top-to-Bottom Using Sagarin Predictor

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If the predictor is so bad, why do experts use it to predict games?

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I'd like to see an expert who would set Mich. St. as a point spread favorite against any of the three teams I mentioned.

I find it funny that on a poker board where people talk about needing tens of thousands of hands to have a relevant sample size people are willing to accept a computer ranking to compare these conferences based on a handful or two of interconference games.

The simple fact is we don't have even close to enough quantitative information to say one football conference is better than the others.
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