This is the first I've seen of this kind of ranking. anyone know anything about this Nolan Power Index? Hard to argue with his ranking, although I'm not sure that UTSA's win over New Mexico is better than Marshall over Miami (yeah, I'm a homer), or even North Texas' shellacking of Idaho.

Nolan Power Index Non-Conference
W - L Best Team
Big Ten 59.00 1 10 - 2 0.8333 Northwestern
SEC 55.79 2 10 - 4 0.7143 Alabama
ACC 50.07 3 10 - 4 0.7143 Florida State
Big 12 49.50 4 6 - 3 0.6667 Texas Tech
Pac-12 47.33 5 7 - 3 0.7000 USC
Sun Belt 42.12 6 4 - 4 0.5000 Texas State
CUSA 38.64 7 6 - 7 0.4615 Texas-San Antonio
AAC 38.00 8 4 - 5 0.4444 Cincinnati
MAC 32.27 9 5 - 8 0.3846 Bowling Green
Indy 28.64 10 2 - 4 0.3333 Notre Dame
MWC 25.67 11 3 - 9 0.2500 Fresno State

A power index after 1 week is like a trend based on 2 data points.

It makes no sense to me, why would he have FSU listed for the ACC over Clemson?

(09-03-2013 03:54 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  A power index after 1 week is like a trend based on 1 data point and a hypothesis.

FIFY

(09-03-2013 04:20 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(09-03-2013 03:54 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  A power index after 1 week is like a trend based on 1 data point and a hypothesis.

FIFY

You beat me to it...

(09-03-2013 05:44 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(09-03-2013 04:20 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(09-03-2013 03:54 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  A power index after 1 week is like a trend based on 1 data point and a hypothesis.

FIFY

You beat me to it...

Yeah, there literally is no way to do a power ranking index that isn't opinion based when there has only been one game played. There is no way to compare anyone without it being an opinion based comparison, thus as you say...a hypothesis Commuter.