Conference Bias in College Football - Statistical Analysis

[doubledeac]

http://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2014/10/conference-bias-in-college-football/

Interesting article though not without biases of his own. Sorry if Haas.

 

[MrBojangles]

Utah is most unfairly biased in favor of? That seems strange.

 

[CheesePritchard]

I'm a hater who acknowledges the SEC is the best conference. The narrative bothers me more than the head start or not being punished as much for losses.

 

[vtwhat etc]

Cheese got this far into the article:

I have fit a second-degree polynomial curve with heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors to the data to approximate

and decided that reading further would be a lost cause.

 

[CheesePritchard]

I never did get within 20 feet of an engineering building but even someone who was math'ed out and opted for the BA track like me can grasp that study.