The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) considers each of the nearly 20,000 possessions every season in major college football. All drives are filtered to eliminate first-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores. A scoring rate analysis of the remaining possessions then determines the baseline possession efficiency expectations against which each team is measured. A team is rewarded for playing well against good teams, win or lose, and is punished more severely for playing poorly against bad teams than it is rewarded for playing well against bad teams.

The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from both play-by-play and drive data from all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays).

The components for S&P+ reflect the components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency, explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. (A fifth factor, turnovers, is informed marginally by sack rates, the only quality-based statistic that has a consistent relationship with turnover margins.)

22. Troy
41. Appalachian State
76. South Alabama
97. Georgia Southern
98. Arkansas State
100. Louisiana
105. Idaho
108. Georgia State
124. New Mexico State
126. Louisiana Monroe
128. Texas State

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fplus

How in the bleep are we fourth? Guess that Savannah State game is still weighing on it.

Decent games against GT and Ole Miss are the only things keeping us afloat. Crazy to think we've fallen 60+ spots from last year returning this much talent.

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How in the heck is Georgia Southern and South Alabama ahead of Arkansas State???

(11-14-2016 09:15 AM)kb325 Wrote:  How in the heck is Georgia Southern and South Alabama ahead of Arkansas State???

cause you lost to an FCS and really sucked OOC. Unless you beat Troy you don't have any good wins.

(11-14-2016 09:15 AM)kb325 Wrote:  How in the heck is Georgia Southern and South Alabama ahead of Arkansas State???

Cause of your absolute dogshit performances for 1/4 of the season. You also didn't do all that great against Gast either.

F/+ measures how well you perform against your schedule.

state beats southern by 1 point and are shocked that the rankings are that close...

Solid ratings system!

(11-14-2016 09:13 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  How in the bleep are we fourth? Guess that Savannah State game is still weighing on it.

Not only that but it appears the formula weighs all games equally. GS has regressed and is no way deserving of that ranking TODAY. Except for the SSU game is there any win on GS's schedule that if the game was replayed today you'd make them the favorite in?

(11-14-2016 09:36 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 09:15 AM)kb325 Wrote:  How in the heck is Georgia Southern and South Alabama ahead of Arkansas State???

cause you lost to an FCS and really sucked OOC. Unless you beat Troy you don't have any good wins.

And USA was hella efficient. We don't waste ANY of our points. LOL.

I never thought I'd see TXST this awful. It is just depressing. I hope this rebuild happens sooner than later because it is hard to sit through a long off season only to want the next off season to hurry up and get here.