Fajitapete's - TAPPS after week 4 rankings

[fajitapete]

TAPPS DIV 1 top 20
Dallas The Covenant 115.51
Midland Trinity 113.19
Boerne Geneva 109.56
Bulverde Bracken 108.87
Abilene Christian 100.88
Rockwall Heritage 97.37
Sugar Land Logos Prep 88.18
Kerrville Our Lady of the Hills 61.06
Dallas Tyler Street 57.14
Huntsville Alpha Omega 55.92
San Antonio The Winston 51.2
Austin Veritas 45.04
Watauga Harvest 44.32
New Braunfels Christian 43.3
Austin Hill Country 43.24
Greenville Christian 37.37
Rockwall Heritage JV 32.7
Baytown Christian 32.43
Round Rock Christian 23.04
Denton Calvary 21.74

TAPPS Div2 Top 20
Seguin Lifegate 101.52
Wichita Falls Notre Dame 97.59
Granbury NCTA 87.99
Fredericksburg Heritage 71.95
Heath Fulton 67.87
Plainview Christian 56.92
San Antonio Castle Hills 46.76
San Antonio Town East 46.56
Lubbock Kingdom Prep 40.25
Alvin Living Stones 34.55
Orange Community Christian 32.93
El Paso Jesus Chapel 31.7
San Marcos Hill Country 28.55
Killeen Memorial 26.5
Brownwood Victory Life 26.29
Longview Trinity 24.9
San Antonio New Life 22.53
Lake Jackson Brazosport 20.61
River City Believers 15.04
Lubbock Christ the King 5.44

 

[GSB]

How does Midland Trinity go up 50 points after forfeiting a game?

 

[Coach Chesley]

There's no way the system can could have taken in to account that they didn't play. It had to have just seem the score and assumed it was played close. Why did Midland forfeit anyway? I know that they had a ton of players when we went there.

 

[fajitapete]

How does Midland Trinity go up 50 points after forfeiting a game?

Valid question -

What I do with the system does is after week 4 is 'complete', I use the calculated power rating to reseed the starting power for the year. Then starting with week 0, All games are re-run using the new starting power to generate spreads and to modify the changes to each teams power rating. This is a correction that starts the the process over with a hopefully more accurate starting power.

For teams that were originally assigned a power rating to low or way too high, it smooths out the wild swings in power seen in the early weeks. I used to do this twice a season, after week 3 and after week 6 but this year I am doing it once, after week 4.

For most teams, the impact isn't that large, but sometimes . . .