Sep 29
Maggie Wigness, a 22 year old under-graduate at Pacific University, knows football, but doesn’t obsess over it. And she knows math and how to program. She put that to good use developing a program that beats the currently used BCS college football ranking system handily:
By factoring in plays during games, she was able to establish the top-tier teams with greater than 70 percent accuracy.
Of course a truly useful computer program would convince the NCAA to HOLD PLAYOFFS. Because no matter what the BCS says, if OK doesn’t play Florida ever in the season, or somebody who beat them in a season, you really don’t know who was best.
BCS and Maggie’s program would have had divide by zero errors on my alma mater.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
The BCS title is as legitimate as Utah State’s Blue Bull.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Hey, lay off my Aggies. They’ll be a national powerhouse someday. When people find out how lovely Logan is in the winter, they won’t have any trouble recruiting super stars…right? But, I agree the BCS is a flawed system. College football has the best regular season of any sport due to the BCS and the ranking system; however, the post-season is usually just a huge let down. Nobody likes it except for the conferences making a load of money on the thing.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I’m sure USU will rule the nation falls apart and they join the Idaho conference… (-:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
By the way, what’s wrong with dividing by zero?