Quote: Originally Posted By kmasonbx on 3/03/2010
In all fairness to colones, and not trying to defend him, but your question is a bit silly considering he started this thread talking about a team that had a much worse record than another team being ranked way over them in his system due to SOS. So with his original post it addressed the issue of what you're saying.
I get colonels point, I just don't agree with it. What he's saying is if team A is 0-1 and team B is 1-0, team B will be ranked over team A regardless of opponent in his system. However if team B is 3-0 and has played teams with a combined 0-9 record and team A is 2-1 playing teams with a combined 7-2 record than team A will be ranked ahead of team B. This I obviously agree with but I don't think it's valid to say every win is of greater value than every loss.
Thank you for a civil post...this/these are a nice breath of fresh air every once in a while. I can see both sides of this argument, like I said I did used to do rankings where some wins rated higher than some losses and it was during that time when I was reviewing my database where I concluded that it wasn't right for me to rate some wins over some losses because it seemed to be happening a fair amount (in my cfb rankings, no cbbs at the time) and the bigger issue was/is that you're determining success by your own standards, and not by the wins and losses compiled by each team. Like I said, its a very basic philosophy but a win = success and a loss = failure. By rating some losses over some wins, you're inherently, partly suggesting that winning and losing don't matter, and I don't think I'll ever switch back to the old format. I think my style of ranking format is only a problem if leagues had 1 game seasons, but that will never happen. Again, I appreciate your commentary and rebuttal. Take care.