RollWave35
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Wall Street Journal College Football Grid Of Shame (Wake is an "admirable weakling")
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-college-football-grid-of-shame-1409185352The Grid is a way of sorting out which fans can boast about their team—on and/or off the field—and who should think again before gloating. The horizontal axis assesses on-field strength for this upcoming season. We took the preseason ratings of all 128 major-college teams from several media outlets and predictive computer models, then averaged them together to smooth out the slight outliers. The better the team, the farther they are on the right.
The vertical axis measures shame. This is trickier to quantify, of course, but there is data to help the cause.
We decided the thin line between admirable and embarrassing with a weighted calculation of every team's academic performance, NCAA violation and probationary record, attendance figures, off-season arrests, total funding it takes from the university or state and amount that student fees subsidize the athletic department.
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