11-29-2011, 10:32 AM
This simply cannot be true . . this would never happen in the FBS . . what blasphemy . .
Research conducted by Yale University economist Matthew Kotchen and University of Calif.-Santa Barbara political scientist Matthew Potoski, which covers the USA Today coaches poll administered by the American Football Coaches Association from 2005 to 2010, shows that coaches rank their own teams, teams in their own conference, and teams that they’ve defeated more favorably than merited. The researchers argue those biases skew the results of the poll, which is one of the components in the system used to determine which teams get to play in major bowl games, and what two teams go to the national championship game.
“The idea that coaches have been gaming the system is not new,” says Mr. Kotchen. “What we figured out is that you could use econometric methods to study this in a systematic way.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/2...aches+poll
Research conducted by Yale University economist Matthew Kotchen and University of Calif.-Santa Barbara political scientist Matthew Potoski, which covers the USA Today coaches poll administered by the American Football Coaches Association from 2005 to 2010, shows that coaches rank their own teams, teams in their own conference, and teams that they’ve defeated more favorably than merited. The researchers argue those biases skew the results of the poll, which is one of the components in the system used to determine which teams get to play in major bowl games, and what two teams go to the national championship game.
“The idea that coaches have been gaming the system is not new,” says Mr. Kotchen. “What we figured out is that you could use econometric methods to study this in a systematic way.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/2...aches+poll