If you have been around this site for any length of time (esp. back to the pre-Blogger custom made website abomination of 2005) you know that we prefer deductive reasoning – have an opinion, then gather the data and crunch the numbers in order to determine if your opinion is worth a crap.

Graham Harrell leaves Texas Tech after three years as starting QB, but the program will live on.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. That is life my friends.
One thing I have found to work very well is the “Dynasty Study” which looks at three variables that mean the most to fantasy college football and see which schools and/or coaches consistently produce top-shelf offensive output.
Total offensive TDs, Yards per play and yards per game are scraped from the NCAA website, each variable is ranked one through 120.
Lots of numbers and the offenses to watch in 2009 after the jump.
Last month I looked only at the 2008 data and today I am looking at the three-year period of 2006 through 2008 to get a bigger picture look at what schools you should focus on for your fantasy research. I created two different scores – RAW means that each year’s results have an equal weight in the calcualtion (simple average) and a WEIGHTED score that gives added gravity to recent years (exponential or weighted moving average). I thought it would also be interesting to see how much RAW and WEIGHTED differed and found it gave me a momentum measurement – I highlighted the postive momentum in green and the negative momentum in red.
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