13 / Method
SHOW YOURWORK.
Every number on this site comes from games played this season. No preseason ratings, recruiting, betting lines or polls.
About this page
How every number is made
This page explains, step by step, how the site builds its ratings and predictions. Everything starts from the games played this season: scores, sites and play-by-play data. No preseason ratings, recruiting rankings, betting lines or polls are used anywhere.
What it covers
The steps cover how Power and Résumé are calculated and combined into the Team Index, how game predictions and home field work, how the rest of the season is simulated 10,000 times for the playoff and conference races, how the Player Index judges each position against its peers and adjusts for opponents, and how the predictions have held up against real results.