Massey Poll

[Bulldog]

Chng Team W L Rating Power Offense Defense HA Sched

1 Grand Valley St 5 0 1.437 43.24 ( 1) 46.27 ( 1) 21.63 ( 1) 2.98 ( 45) 13.17 ( 20) G Lakes

2 Northwood MI 6 0 1.125 30.00 ( 4) 43.74 ( 3) 10.92 ( 10) 3.08 ( 28) 13.99 ( 15) G Lakes

3 + 1 NW Missouri 6 0 1.067 30.57 ( 3) 43.33 ( 4) 11.90 ( 7) 2.61 ( 96) 5.92 ( 55) Mid Am

4 + 1 Saginaw Val 4 1 1.024 32.20 ( 2) 41.15 ( 8) 15.71 ( 3) 2.96 ( 47) 15.72 ( 11) G Lakes

5 + 1 Pittsburg St 6 0 0.999 29.77 ( 5) 44.71 ( 2) 9.72 ( 17) 2.79 ( 71) -1.07 ( 91) Mid Am

6 + 1 St Cloud 6 0 0.996 27.24 ( 7) 41.55 ( 6) 10.35 ( 12) 3.31 ( 8) 7.59 ( 41) N Cent

7 - 4 North Dakota 4 1 0.973 29.29 ( 6) 36.18 ( 16) 17.77 ( 2) 3.30 ( 9) 15.84 ( 9) N Cent

8 Michigan Tech 5 0 0.925 25.32 ( 9) 40.95 ( 9) 9.03 ( 19) 3.34 ( 5) 8.79 ( 34) G Lakes

9 Valdosta St 4 1 0.862 25.45 ( 8) 38.09 ( 10) 12.02 ( 6) 2.08 (136) 15.66 ( 12) Gulf S

10 + 2 Ferris St 5 1 0.849 22.08 ( 12) 32.98 ( 26) 13.76 ( 4) 3.22 ( 14) 16.69 ( 8) G Lakes

[Diggler]

And 7 out of 10 are from the NW region. What a crock this new alignment is.

[jimdahl]

Since it's not a poll, rather a mathematical rating system, it can produce counterintuitive results with limited or anomolous data. Winnowing previously noted caveats about Massey's ratings, the reason mathematical techniques have difficulty accurately comparing teams in the GLIAC to those from other conferences is because the GLIAC has such an insular schedule.

The GLIAC has played only 3 games against outside opponents (3-0). The NCC has played 29 (22-7).

If his were a strict win-loss rating system, it would have to treat the GLIAC as its own group because the lack of external losses makes it impossible to evaluate them relative to external teams. However, instead it uses margin of victory, which lets you produce a rating with sparser data, but which makes the rating a lot less obviously predictive (and thus is not allowed in the BCS).

Regardless of technique, any objective evaluation of the strength of GLIAC relative to other conferences is based entirely on these three games:

Ashland 48, St. Joseph's (IN) 7

Northwood 45, St. Joseph's (IN) 18

Findlay 40, Tiffin 21

[Bulldog]

It's not a poll, it's a mathematical rating system, which is why it can produce counterintuitive results with limited or anomolous data.  Regardless of technique, any objective evaluation of the strength of GLIAC relative to other conferences is based entirely on these three games:

Ashland 48, St. Joseph's (IN) 7

Northwood 45, St. Joseph's (IN) 18

Findlay 40, Tiffin 21

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And the Ferris at UND game? If Ferris wins, it will solidify the GLIAC stranglehold on Massey.

[The Sicatoka]

Bulldog:

Since you seem to like Massey Ratings, what do you think of this?

10/09 at North Dakota (139 4-1 ) [ 23 14.0 -24.1] **

That "23" just right of the "[" means that Massey thinks you have a 23% chance of winning the game against UND. Massey expects a 24-14 UND victory. Thoughts?

** http://www.mratings.com/rate/team.php?tm=134349

[Diggler]

Thoughts?

Since he's a Ferris Wheel State fan, I doubt it.

[Bulldog]

31-13 Ferris. That is if we play good ball like we did against Findlay. But it could be worse if your QB sux as bad as I have been reading.

[bigmrg74]

Since he's a Ferris Wheel State fan, I doubt it.

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This is only a small taste of Bulldog's sick and twisted vision of the world. If you really want to lower yourself to his level, I happen to know the website that leads to the 15th level of Hades from which Bulldog was spanwed from, or "Bulldog1" as he is known there.

MLive --- GLIAC

Cross yourself and say a hail mary or 3 before clicking it. Its not pretty man.