Team Sports Analysis: January 2015

Thursday, January 15, 2015

2014 NCAA FBS Competitive Balance

Now that the 2014 season is in the books, I want to take a short look at competitive balance in NCAA football. For more background read my previous analysis of competitive balance in NCAA football. What I want to do in this blog is simply update the data over the past two seasons in terms of competitive balance. Using the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance, I find that NCAA football was 1.43 in 2014, which is more balanced than the 1.65 in 2013. Yet, overall, NCAA football does not seem to be much different in terms of competitive balance from year to year as you can see in the table that I give in the blog linked above.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

2014 NCAA FBS Final Ranking

Ohio State is the winner of the first bowl subdivision championship game! So now that all of the post season football games are finished, I have run the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model one last time for this season using the data from cfbstats.com. Unlike the last few years, where the team ranked the highest in the model was also the "National Champion", this season Ohio State ranks as the #4 most productive team behind #1 Texas Christian, #2 Oregon (the runner-up in the championship game) and #3 Michigan State. The highest ranked SEC team is #7 Alabama.

Rank	Team
1	TCU
2	Oregon
3	Michigan State
4	Ohio State
5	Marshall
6	Baylor
7	Alabama
8	Georgia
9	Louisiana Tech
10	Wisconsin
11	Clemson
12	Memphis
13	Boise State
14	East Carolina
15	Georgia Tech
16	Mississippi
17	Georgia Southern
18	Mississippi State
19	Louisville
20	Stanford
21	BYU
22	Arkansas
23	Northern Illinois
24	Houston
25	North Carolina State