My younger brother, Stephen, and I talk about Saturday’s college football action, our predictions for the college football playoff, and more. The playoff committee will release its inaugural rankings on Tuesday night, so listen now!
The Sportswriting of Andrew Kahn
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Steve is a much better guest than I thought he would be
Thanks for listening!
I thoroughly enjoyed your inaugural podcast. Earlier this morning I heard Brad Edwards on ESPN radio reference “game control” as a metric he’s using to rank teams for the playoff. Have you seen that metric before? Is the playoff committee using it?
There’s a brief explanation of Game Control midway through this post: http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/96761/determining-the-most-deserving-teams. Basically, it’s a metric that looks at a team’s chances of winning throughout a game, with the strength of the opponent factored in. Sometimes a final score can be misleading (maybe a the winning team tacked on a meaningless touchdown in the final seconds), so Game Control attempts to give a more accurate depiction of how dominant a team was in a particular game. I don’t know if the committee is using it. They haven’t gone out of their way to mention it.