Tuesday, January 31, 2017

2016-17 NCAA Men's Basketball Power Points Standings through 01-30-17

1 Baylor
2 Gonzaga
3 Villanova
4 Arizona
5 Kansas
6 Louisville
7 Saint Mary's College
8 Maryland
9 Cincinnati
10 Butler
11 Oregon
12 Kentucky
13 Creighton
14 Florida State
15 North Carolina
16 Virginia
17 Florida
18 UCLA
19 Wisconsin
20 South Carolina
21 Middle Tennessee
22 USC
23 Duke
24 UNC Wilmington
25 SMU
26 New Mexico State
27 West Virginia
28 Xavier
29 Notre Dame
30 Northwestern
31 Nevada
32 Illinois State
33 Purdue
34 Akron
35 Virginia Commonwealth
36 Arkansas
37 Minnesota
38 Valparaiso
39 Dayton
40 Virginia Tech
41 California
42 Wichita State
43 Monmouth
44 Vermont
45 Kansas State
46 Belmont
47 Texas Tech
48 Memphis
49 TCU
50 Oklahoma State
51 Marquette
52 Houston
53 Miami (FL)
54 Utah
55 Seton Hall
56 Rhode Island
57 Charleston
58 East Tennessee State
59 Iowa State
60 Michigan State
61 Wake Forest
62 Clemson
63 North Carolina State
64 Alabama
65 Georgia Tech
66 Winthrop
67 Auburn
68 Tennessee
69 Michigan
70 Pittsburgh
71 Florida Gulf Coast
72 Indiana
73 North Dakota State
74 Bucknell
75 Illinois
76 Georgia
77 Providence
78 BYU
79 Ohio State
80 Arkansas State
81 UTA
82 Georgetown
83 San Francisco
84 Ole Miss
85 UCF
86 New Mexico
87 Texas A&M
88 Saint Bonaventure
89 Penn State
90 Boise State
91 UNC Asheville
92 Chattanooga
93 Syracuse
94 Mississippi State
95 Iona
96 Richmond
97 Princeton
98 Ohio
99 Stanford
100 Vanderbilt
101 La Salle
102 George Mason
103 Loyola-Chicago
104 Sam Houston State
105 Tulsa
106 Georgia State
107 Oakland
108 Temple
109 UNC Greensboro
110 Iowa
111 Nebraska
112 Colorado State
113 UAB
114 Wyoming
115 Towson
116 Old Dominion
117 Central Michigan
118 Wright State
119 Yale
120 Marshall
121 Davidson
122 Louisiana-Lafayette
123 Fresno State
124 Georgia Southern
125 IPFW
126 George Washington
127 Furman
128 Samford
129 Louisiana Tech
130 San Diego State
131 Colorado
132 William & Mary
133 Saint Joseph's
134 Rice
135 Cal State Bakersfield
136 UMBC
137 South Dakota
138 Northeastern
139 Elon
140 Massachusetts
141 Eastern Washington
142 Washington State
143 Harvard
144 Rutgers
145 Santa Clara
146 Grand Canyon
147 Lehigh
148 Eastern Michigan
149 Tennessee-Martin
150 Canisius
151 Denver
152 LSU
153 Missouri State
154 Tennessee State
155 Arizona State
156 Saint Peter's
157 New Hampshire
158 Weber State
159 Toledo
160 Northern Kentucky
161 Albany
162 Southern Illinois
163 Green Bay
164 Texas Southern
165 Ball State
166 UC Davis
167 UC Irvine
168 Navy
169 New Orleans
170 Boston University
171 Texas
172 North Carolina Central
173 Stony Brook
174 San Diego
175 Connecticut
176 Saint John's
177 Loyola-Marymount
178 Oklahoma
179 Northern Iowa
180 Northern Illinois
181 Loyola-Maryland
182 Liberty
183 Mount Saint Mary's
184 Boston College
185 East Carolina
186 Siena
187 South Carolina Upstate
188 Lipscomb
189 UNLV
190 Jacksonville State
191 Washington
192 Nebraska-Omaha
193 Long Island
194 San Jose State
195 Rider
196 Troy
197 Fairfield
198 Coastal Carolina
199 Air Force
200 High Point
201 Mercer
202 Charlotte
203 Holy Cross
204 UMKC
205 Texas State
206 Pennsylvania
207 Utah State
208 Kent State
209 Evansville
210 Western Kentucky
211 North Dakota
212 Fordham
213 DePaul
214 South Alabama
215 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
216 Montana
217 Illinois-Chicago
218 Duquesne
219 Murray State
220 Arkansas-Little Rock
221 Portland
222 Hofstra
223 Utah Valley
224 Columbia
225 Gardner-Webb
226 Fairleigh Dickinson
227 Buffalo
228 Nicholls State
229 Morehead State
230 Stephen F. Austin
231 Montana State
232 Lamar
233 Portland State
234 Radford
235 Brown
236 Southeastern Louisiana
237 Pacific
238 Indiana State
239 Bowling Green
240 Idaho
241 Cal State Northridge
242 Jacksonville
243 Quinnipiac
244 Binghamton
245 Eastern Kentucky
246 Long Beach State
247 South Dakota State
248 Bradley
249 Campbell
250 Miami (OH)
251 Hawaii
252 Wagner
253 Manhattan
254 Houston Baptist
255 Incarnate Word
256 Youngstown State
257 Saint Louis
258 Army
259 Seattle University
260 Southeast Missouri State
261 Wofford
262 Pepperdine
263 South Florida
264 Morgan State
265 Drexel
266 IUPUI
267 Oral Roberts
268 Bryant
269 Massachusetts-Lowell
270 Milwaukee
271 Delaware
272 Saint Francis (PA)
273 Drake
274 Eastern Illinois
275 Savannah State
276 Missouri
277 Western Michigan
278 The Citadel
279 Niagara
280 Norfolk State
281 Alcorn State
282 Marist
283 Cornell
284 Cleveland State
285 Western Carolina
286 Kennesaw State
287 New Jersey Tech
288 Tennessee Tech
289 UTRGV
290 Jackson State
291 ULM
292 North Florida
293 Southern
294 Robert Morris
295 UTSA
296 Cal State Fullerton
297 UC Riverside
298 South Carolina State
299 Prairie View A&M
300 Northwestern State
301 McNeese State
302 Sacred Heart
303 Northern Colorado
304 James Madison
305 Tulane
306 Detroit
307 Appalachian State
308 Sacramento State
309 Austin Peay
310 Colgate
311 Grambling
312 UTEP
313 American
314 Western Illinois
315 Maryland Eastern Shore
316 Stetson
317 North Texas
318 Florida Atlantic
319 Oregon State
320 Hampton
321 Lafayette
322 Charleston Southern
323 Hartford
324 Central Arkansas
325 Southern Miss
326 Chicago State
327 VMI
328 Abilene Christian
329 Maine
330 Cal Poly
331 UC Santa Barbara
332 Northern Arizona
333 Longwood
334 SIU Edwardsville
335 FIU
336 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
337 Coppin State
338 Dartmouth
339 Mississippi Valley State
340 Idaho State
341 Presbyterian College
342 Howard
343 Alabama State
344 Central Connecticut
345 Delaware State
346 Saint Francis (NY)
347 Southern Utah
348 Florida A&M
349 Bethune-Cookman
350 North Carolina A&T
351 Alabama A&M

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

2016 NCAA FBS Power Points Standings through 01-09-17

Teams listed with Power Points in all games and FBS games only respectively.

1 -Clemson 108 96
2 -Alabama 103 91
3 -Ohio State 75 70
4 -Washington 66 57
5 -Oklahoma 63 54
6 -Wisconsin 63 55
7 -Western Michigan 62 52
8 -Penn State 61 54
9 -Florida State 60 52
10 -Michigan 55 49
11 -Southern California 53 47
12 -South Florida 47 37
13 -Western Kentucky 47 38
14 -Boise State 46 37
15 -Tennessee 46 40
16 -Appalachian State 45 36
17 -Oklahoma State 44 36
18 -Colorado 44 37
19 -Stanford 43 37
20 -West Virginia 42 34
21 -Florida 40 32
22 -Troy 38 30
23 -Virginia Tech 36 27
24 -Air Force 35 24
25 -Georgia Tech 35 27
26 -Miami-Florida 34 27
27 -Louisiana State 34 27
28 -San Diego State 33 24
29 -Louisville 33 25
30 -Nebraska 33 27
31 -Tulsa 31 21
32 -Temple 31 21
33 -Auburn 31 24
34 -Houston 30 23
35 Old Dominion 29 20
36 -Kansas State 29 22
37 -Navy 28 20
38 -Toledo 27 20
39 -Minnesota 26 20
40 -Pittsburgh 26 21
41 -Utah 25 19
42 -Idaho 23 15
43 -Wyoming 23 17
44 -Brigham Young 21 12
45 -Texas A&M 21 15
46 -New Mexico 20 11
47 -Washington State 20 26
48 -Georgia 20 11
49 -Memphis 19 11
50 -Louisiana Tech 18 10
51 -Iowa 18 26
52 -North Carolina 17 10
53 -North Carolina State 13 6
54 -Kentucky 11 6
55 -Arkansas 11 5
56 -Colorado State 11 4
57 -Northwestern 10 16
58 -Wake Forest 6 1
59 -Eastern Michigan 5 0
60 -Boston College 4 -2
61 -Baylor 4 -1
62 -Arkansas State 3 6
63 -Army 3 -4
64 -Vanderbilt 2 -4
65 -Middle Tennessee State 1 -6
66 -Ohio 1 -5
67 -Southern Mississippi 0 -7
68 -California -2 -4
69 -Mississippi -3 -8
70 -South Carolina -5 -11
71 -Mississippi State -5 -10
72 -Hawaii -6 -13
73 -Indiana -6 -10
74 -Texas Christian -7 -11
75 -Central Michigan -8 -10
76 -Central Florida -9 -13
77 -Maryland -10 -15
78 -UTSA -10 -16
79 -Southern Methodist -10 -15
80 -Texas Tech -10 -14
81 -Louisiana-Lafayette -12 -18
82 -South Alabama -12 -16
83 Georgia Southern -12 -16
84 -Texas -13 -16
85 -Arizona State -14 -16
86 -Northern Illinois -14 -7
87 -Syracuse -14 -18
88 -Missouri -17 -21
89 -Akron -18 -21
90 -UCLA -18 -21
91 -Oregon -19 -21
92 -Notre Dame -19 -24
93 -Oregon State -20 -22
94 -Miami-Ohio -21 -14
95 -North Texas -22 -28
96 -Duke -22 -25
97 -Louisiana-Monroe -25 -29
98 -Cincinnati -25 -28
99 -San Jose State -25 -28
100 -Arizona -28 -30
101 -Tulane -29 -33
102 -UNLV -29 -33
103 -Utah State -29 -31
104 -Bowling Green -31 -32
105 -New Mexico State -31 -33
106 Charlotte -32 -36
107 -Florida International -33 -37
108 -Nevada -34 -38
109 -Illinois -34 -35
110 -East Carolina -36 -39
111 -Georgia State -36 -38
112 -Ball State -37 -38
113 -UTEP -37 -40
114 -Michigan State -37 -38
115 -Iowa State -37 -28
116 -Purdue -38 -39
117 -Marshall -40 -43
118 -Rutgers -41 -42
119 -Kent State -42 -31
120 -Rice -43 -46
121 -Florida Atlantic -44 -47
122 -Connecticut -46 -48
123 -Kansas -46 -46
124 -Massachusetts -49 -50
125 -Texas State -49 -50
126 -Virginia -50 -41
127 -Buffalo -57 -46
128 -Fresno State -61 -62

Sunday, January 8, 2017

NFL Tiebreaking System Simplified (2003-2016)

For some time now I have thought the NFL's tiebreaker methods could be much simpler so I cut out everything but strength of victory, strength of schedule, and net points in all games which are currently tiebreakers #5, #6, and #10 where division ties are concerned and one spot higher where wildcard ties are concerned. So what remains is the following:

The six postseason participants from each conference are seeded as follows:

1-The division champion with the best record.
2-The division champion with the second-best record.
3-The division champion with the third-best record.
4-The division champion with the fourth-best record.
5-The Wild Card club with the best record.
6-The Wild Card club with the second-best record.

To break all ties regardless of number of teams involved and their respective divisions:

1-Strength of victory.
2-Strength of schedule.
3-Net points in all games.

This system has been applied to the last 14 NFL seasons (2003-2016).

A. 27 of 28 top seeds remained the same.
B. 52 of 56 teams with byes remained the same.
C. 107 of 112 division champions remained the same.
D. 161 of 168 playoff teams remained the same.
E. 143 of 168 playoff teams retained the same seed.
F. The 2nd and 3rd tiebreakers were not needed in the last 14 seasons to determine a single top seed, bye, division champion, or playoff team.
G. Only 21 pairs of teams out of 6944 pairs over 14 seasons finished with the same record and strength of victory.