New NCAA SRS aids S.C. State's playoff push

[R.A.]

New NCAA SRS aids S.C. State's playoff push

By Thomas Grant, The Times and Democrat

When South Carolina State fans ask what helped its team stick out to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoff selection committee, it can point to three letters - SRS.

Adopted this year, the NCAA Simple Rating System (http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/fcs-srs-poll) is a ranking system used to gauge team quality. Within the NCAA SRS, the rating of a team will be calculated largely by two components: a strength-of-schedule measure and a win-loss differential.

A glance of the final rankings before the release of the playoff brackets showed S.C. State highly-ranked at 18th. In fact, out of the Top 25 teams in the SRS rankings, only Charleston Southern (16), Tennessee-Martin (22) and Youngstown State were not selected to the field of 24.

Read the full story at: http://thetandd.com/news/opinion/blogs/following_the_bulldogs/new-ncaa-srs-aids-s-c-state-s-playoff-push/article_4c3bcb70-5601-11e3-8c4e-001a4bcf887a.html



SC State's in, Bethune Cookman's in, Tennessee State's in... go MEAC, go HBCU Football!

[robsnotes4u]

Margin of victory is not considered in the NCAA version of SRS, therefore blow out victories do not help. Read what you quoted.


http://www.ncaa.com/fcs-selections-101 and look under Selections or read below


NCAA SIMPLE RATING SYSTEM
Beginning with the 2013 football season, the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee will use the NCAA Simple Rating System (NCAA SRS) as a tool for evaluating teams for selection into the 24-team championship.

The NCAA Simple Rating System (NCAA SRS) is a ranking system used to gauge team quality. Within the NCAA SRS, the rating of a team will be calculated largely by two components: a strength-of-schedule measure (SOS) and a win-loss differential (WL).

A team’s SOS measure is simply the average NCAA SRS rating of that team’s opponents for the season.

A team’s WL measure factors whether or not a game was won or lost; the location of the game (home/away/neutral site); and the NCAA (sub)division of the opponent.

One team’s rating depends on its opponents’ ratings, which depend on their opponents’ ratings, etc., based on the “network” of college football games played each week during the football season.

The final SRS standings will be posted Nov. 24.



Did you know?

Margin of victory is not factored into any team’s NCAA SRS rating.

Games against Division III or non-NCAA opponents are also not factored into any team’s NCAA SRS rating.

The time of the season in which a game is played (early-season versus late-season games) is not factored into a team’s NCAA SRS rating.









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[R.A.]

Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

[centennial]

Did you write this inaccurate piece?

[WestCoastAggie]

All I can say is Buddy better not lose or else he may not have a job.

[R.A.]

Did you write this inaccurate piece?

No, I did not.

But what exactly is wrong with it in your opinion?