JdPat04 wrote:Dunno if you answered why just knew you didn't address my reply that it should be more than 16.
Again if you was a coach would you sit on a 16 pt lead in the 2nd or 3rd quarter or even the beginning of the 4th???
No... That's 2 TDs and 2 PTs to tie
2 TDs and a FG to beat you.
Every coach would want you to have to score hell my guess would be 22 points atleast to feel somewhere safe and that depends on the opponent.
If FSU was facing Bama you would be pissed if y'all was up 16 points at the half then went into protect mode.
I'll try to explain it a little better. I totally agree that you shouldn't go conservative if you're up by 16 at half. IMO, you should get any extra credit just because you beat someone by 17+ instead of 16. It's just my personal preference for a cutoff between quality of wins.
This also has a way of penalizing teams less for garbage time TDs. For example, Stanford is beating Oregon 55 - 24 with 2 min left in the game. Stanford has 2nd stringers in and Oregon scores 2 TDS and 2 2-pts in the last 2. Final is 55-40 That means that the MOV is cut from 31 to 15.
Now let's say that Stanford and Oregon are both 9-1 after the game. Here's the difference with my cap and your max cap of 29 depending on whether or not Oregon scores 16 in the last 2 minutes.
Stanford's results
29 * (9/10) = 26.1 rating for the game
15 * (9/10) = 13.5 rating for the game
vs
16 * (9/10) = 14.4 rating
15 * (9/10) = 13.5 rating
Oregon's results
-29 * (1 / 10) = -2.9 (because it's hard to beat good teams, losses to them don't count as much.
-15 * (1 / 10) = -1.5
vs.
-16 * (1 / 10) = -1.6
-15 * (1 / 10) = -1.5
Now while Stanford does lose a little bit of credit for allowing to scores in a prevent defense, they lose MUCH MORE with your cap. Do you think that those 2 scores at the end of the game should matter so much to how Stanford dominated them? I mean with a higher cap their win counts almost half as much as it would have. My point is, Stanford was just plain better, and that's what they should get credit for.
It's an arbitrary line, I know. But I had to draw the line somewhere, otherwise Ohio State would get
(76-0) * 1/4 = 25.25
credit for thumping 1-3 FAMU while Stanford would get
(55-24) 31 * 9/10 = 26.1
credit for thumping 9-1 Oregon.
I mean do we honestly want to say beating the crap out of FAMU is almost as good as beating the crap out of Oregon?
