Teams better than....via transitive property

Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:04 am

Kinda a fun website to play with, they've added a diagram of all the teams that each team is better than based on who beat whom.

Here's us for this year: http://myteamisbetterthanyourteam.com/r ... 5&method=0

Only 2 wins doesn't give you a huge graph, so far we've got:
Eastern and Southern - via direct wins
Austin Peay - via Eastern
Liberty - via Southern
Georgia State, Montana, and Delaware State - via Liberty
New Mexico State - via Georgia State
UC Davis, Northern Arizona, and N. Dakota State - via Montana

Here's last year's: http://myteamisbetterthanyourteam.com/r ... 4&method=0
We added a good chunk of the MAC via our win over Indiana State who beat Ball State, as well as a few in the Sun Belt via Indiana State also beating Liberty who also beat App State that year.

Obviously transitive property doesn't actually mean much of anything...I don't think anyone could honestly claim that we're better than NDSU at this point...it's just a fun way to look at it.

sealhall74 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:51 am

Interesting graph from last year. We got a ton of mileage from the wins against ISUb and YSU. Those are two we absolutely must have against this year to be relevant.

Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:08 pm

sealhall74 wrote:Interesting graph from last year. We got a ton of mileage from the wins against ISUb and YSU. Those are two we absolutely must have against this year to be relevant.

Absolutely. They were (and still are this year) very good teams that have the ability to beat just about anyone, and we were able to catch them when we had a couple of great games. It's going to take a strong effort to beat both of them again this year, but it is do-able. Like you said, if we want a shot at the playoffs, we have to win those games, and likely take another one (plus help from other teams) or two from the remaining games (UNI, ISUr, NDSU, SDSU) to make it in.

In the current playoff format, 6 Div. I wins, playing in the top conference, with no embarrassing FCS-level losses (gotta keep it close with NDSU and ISUr) will put you on the bubble of the playoffs, but you'd likely need a bit of help from a few other teams (ie. other bubble teams losing near the end). 7 Div. I wins will get you in if you're from the MVFC.