In Your Opinion, What Are The Ingredients of an "Eye Test"?

[CorpRebel]

For me, it's mainly strength of schedule with a bit of winning margins thrown in.

Winning margins come in for me with mostly beating the teams they are ''supposed to beat'' the way they are supposed to beat them.

If a team is favored by 24 and they win by a touchdown, they may not be as strong as originally thought.

By the same token, if they're beating teams that should be able to beat them or at least play them close by double digits...that team may be better than originally thought or at least as good.

Works for me ...

 

[Inquisitor]

 

[JuiceTheGator]

 

[steelerssb]

Eye Test?

Oh that thing pollsters hide behind when giving more weight to name-brand teams.

 

[OlyDuck]

Strength of schedule is just another form of eye test.

EVERYTHING is subjective.

sos has flaws
in a lot of sos they take pure W L record
so if you have 8-5 Louisville, 8-5 Oklahoma State, 8-5 Indiana, 8-5 Washington and 8-5 Texas A&M it weighs the same as 8-5 Temple, 8-5 Marshall, 8-5 Buffalo, 8-5 wyoming and 8-5 Arkansas state

 

[steelerssb]

SOS + margin of victory. But SOS can also be subjective in its own right so I feel like a lot of it is who just "looks" better.

 

[ELTEXAN]

SOS + margin of victory. But SOS can also be subjective in its own right so I feel like a lot of it is who just "looks" better.

You’ve used synonyms correctly. You pass third grade.

 

[OlyDuck]

SOS + margin of victory. But SOS can also be subjective in its own right so I feel like a lot of it is who just "looks" better.

why is margin of victory a factor?
an undefeated team that wins all games by 50 and an undefeated team that wins all games by 7 are both still undefeated

 

[Red_Alert]

Tejas would be undefeated if they could lead with their heads. amirite?

 

[ELTEXAN]

why is margin of victory a factor?
an undefeated team that wins all games by 50 and an undefeated team that wins all games by 7 are both still undefeated

More points is better than less. Dominating is better than barely winning. This isn’t complicated.

 

[ELTEXAN]

Tejas would be undefeated if they could lead with their heads. amirite?

Just end the games at the half, and we’d be in the top 5 right now

 

[steelerssb]

You’ve used synonyms correctly. You pass third grade.

I can't tell you how happy I am to have your approval

 

[OlyDuck]

More points is better than less. Dominating is better than barely winning. This isn’t complicated.

because? a bunch of talking heads always told us so?

 

[ELTEXAN]

because? a bunch of talking heads always told us so?

No. It means your offense was more productive; your defense was more stifling, etc.
why are you having problems with this very simple concept.

 

[Peter Gozintite]

That's what people say when they don't have anything substantial to add.

 

[Wild Turkey]

When teams have similar records, we hear the terminology "Eye Test" for selecting teams to the CFP.

Is there a priority order for an Eye Test?

1) Record?
2) Conference?
3) Strength of Schedule?
4) Winning Margins?

etc?

1. Record
2. Health of key players
3. How did they win (point spread and did weird stuff happen)
4. SOS (are they battle-tested)
5. Who has the best coaches
6. Who has the home field (if a neutral field who will have the biggest crowd)
7. Momentum (does the team believe in themselves, do they have "magic")
8. Weather and is there an advantage there
9. Timezone
10. Who did Corso pick (go the opposite direction)

The above is the Wild Turkey 10 step game analysis criteria for successful picking.

 

[Hu War Yu]

More points is better than less. Dominating is better than barely winning. This isn’t complicated.

Well, there's dominating the Big Ten, and there's dominating the MAC. Surely you would agree that one of those is more impressive than the other, even though you would have to employ some subjectivity

 

[OlyDuck]

No. It means your offense was more productive; your defense was more stifling, etc.
why are you having problems with this very simple concept.

im not having issues with the concept just the reasoning
so if a team wins every game 10-7 but is still undefeated and is the only undefeated team but another team won every game by 30 but lost 1 game by 3 you would want the 1 loss team because they looked more dominant?

 

[steelerssb]

why is margin of victory a factor?
an undefeated team that wins all games by 50 and an undefeated team that wins all games by 7 are both still undefeated

I don't necessarily disagree, but it definitely comes into play for the powers that be. Is Cincy rolling through the AAC winning by 35 more impressive than Alabama winning by 10 in the SEC? That's where SOS and beating similar teams comes in, but again that's subjective. So I guess it comes back to who "looks" better doing it and back to square one.

But also let's be honest, "eye test" also includes who's going to bring in the most money in the playoffs.

 

[iowajerms]

We know what OD's eye candy is?