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Feb 18, 2024
7:25:45am
krindorr Playmaker
Was curious how good a predictor SP+ preseason rankings are...so here's data from 2023

Bottom Line (and not a surprise) is that they tend to be a very good predictor of EOS Sagarin rankings/ratings... but there's always a few notable exceptions, so it's certainly not ironclad

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There's a few teams of interest highlighed. BYU is blue, Utah is the darker red.  Arizona is the lighter red with yellow around it.  Baylor is the dark green.  Oregon is the yellow/green.  Kansas is the blue/red and Mizzou is the yellow/black.  Those tended to be the local P5 teams and the most interesting outliers.  There's some other outliers in the lower ranks.... but nobody is really interested to know UNLV was predicted to be #110 and ended up #65 or the Jacksonville State was supposed to be one of the worst teams and ended up only #78

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