Friday, December 10, 2010

Army-Navy Game

The last regular season NCAA FBS game to be played this year is the Army-Navy game this Saturday. So let's look at the productivity ranking of the last regular season game of the year. As of last Saturday, we see that Navy is more productive in terms of offense and that Army is slightly more productive on the defensive side of the ball. Overall, Navy is the more productive team, primarily since Navy is so much more productive on offense than Army is on defense.

Also, since I am looking at schools associated with our armed forces, I thought that I would look at Air Force's productivity which received the Commander-in-Chief Trophy this year. Here we can see that both the on-field results correspond to the productivity rankings, in that Air Force is more productive both in offense and defense (and overall).

Here are the offense, defense and total productivity rankings as of December 4th.
(Please note: it is possible that after this game some of the coefficients in the model may change enough to change the overall regular season rankings, so I will be posting another ranking for next week - though not likely on Monday.)

School Offense Defense Total
Air Force 38 28 29
Navy 44 35 35
Army 73 33 52