Explanation: Each team is listed with its record, overall score differential, and six ratings. Brief explanations of the ratings follow.
Because these ratings contain no prejudices regarding team or conference strengths, they tend to be quite inaccurate early in the seasons. College football appears to take at least 5 games per team before even remotely reasonable ratings are produced; acceptable ratings are produced with 8 games per team; excellent ratings unfortunately require 14 games per team.

Full Ranking

                             STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI     RPI         POLL   
TEAM      W L PF PA  SCHED  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  P-SCR  P-OFF  P-DEF
Yale      3 0 17  2 -0.130    1  0.535    1  0.841    1  0.925    1 0.6144    1 0.6851    2   1217  0.293  0.879  0.970
Princeton 2 0 12  0 -0.469    2  0.436    2  0.589    2  0.847    2 0.5633    3 0.5397    3   1150  0.013  0.588  1.106
Stevens   3 1 16  8 -0.000    3  0.397    3  0.499    3  0.279    3 0.5609    2 0.5942    1   1233  0.356  0.286  0.272
Rutgers   1 3  7 17 -0.219    4  0.011    4 -0.387    5 -0.510    5 0.4200    5 0.3379    5   1062  0.411 -0.457 -0.564
Columbia  1 5  9 28  0.104    5  0.000    5 -0.486    4 -0.393    4 0.4450    4 0.4211    4   1088  0.439 -0.314 -0.472
UNRANKED  0 1  0  6 -0.770      -1.000      -1.000      -1.709      0.4301      0.4550           0  0.309 -1.741 -1.678


Independent: strength=0.280 (#1)
STANDARD MED LIKELY PREDICTIVE IMPRVD RPI RPI POLL TEAM W L PF PA SCHED RNK RATING RNK RATING RNK RATING RNK RATING RNK RATING RNK RATING P-SCR P-OFF P-DEF Yale 3 0 17 2 -0.130 1 0.535 1 0.841 1 0.925 1 0.6144 1 0.6851 2 1217 0.293 0.879 0.970 Princeton 2 0 12 0 -0.469 2 0.436 2 0.589 2 0.847 2 0.5633 3 0.5397 3 1150 0.013 0.588 1.106 Stevens 3 1 16 8 -0.000 3 0.397 3 0.499 3 0.279 3 0.5609 2 0.5942 1 1233 0.356 0.286 0.272 Rutgers 1 3 7 17 -0.219 4 0.011 4 -0.387 5 -0.510 5 0.4200 5 0.3379 5 1062 0.411 -0.457 -0.564 Columbia 1 5 9 28 0.104 5 0.000 5 -0.486 4 -0.393 4 0.4450 4 0.4211 4 1088 0.439 -0.314 -0.472
Conference Strengths CONFERENCE W L PCT RNK RATING Independent 10 9 0.526 1 0.280

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.200 points in main ratings
     0.036 points in improved RPI
Average of 1.75 points per score

posted: Mon Dec 31 14:14:07 2007

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