Someone help me....what does this mean?

What does the "buy" and "sell" columns in this poll mean? Forgive my ignorance if this is something I should know

Team W L Sell Buy Rating Sched

1 Oklahoma 12 0 43.268 0.023 79.737 49
2 LSU 10 1 36.247 0.028 75.802 35
3 Georgia 9 2 33.627 0.037 72.059 10
4 Florida St 9 2 26.517 0.039 69.086 41
5 Michigan 10 2 27.359 0.041 68.915 54
6 USC 10 1 25.740 0.042 67.871 56
7 Texas 9 2 20.930 0.037 67.214 11
8 Kansas St 10 3 24.415 0.043 67.193 61
9 Florida 8 3 23.114 0.044 66.365 7
10 Miami FL 9 2 22.509 0.049 64.876 33

 

If you're ignorant, that makes 2 of us.

 

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't know what it means. I was afraid to be pounded by 35 replies with definitions.l

 

where from?

 

http://www.masseyratings.com/rate/cf-e.htm

 

So umm, anyone know what the hell this means?

 

found this link from that url. You basically have to be an econo-math-phd-super-geek to understand this stuff, and thus to understand the BCS.

http://rsport.narod.ru/wwrr/theory/erating.htm

Apparently this forumla was developed by a freakin mad-genius Russian. But.. I'm sure he's also a big US College Football fan

 

here's the basics

Buying means winning, and selling means losing. So obviously LSU has bought more than it has sold. Adjustments to the "price" are made for buying a game at home (the game is cheaper or less valuable) and for buying a game from a bad team (also cheaper). If a team wins by a large margin, or if it beats opponents who ordinarily win by large margins, that's figured in, too, so that to buy a game from them is more expensive. So what a team pays when it buys its games is supposed to measure the "value" of a teams wins and what it gets when it sells is supposed to measure the value of its losses--and obviously under this rating system LSU does very well.

 

after reading it over a bit, i have decided i could not understand that in a million years.

 

Re: here's the basics

I thought margin of victory was completely removed. (???)