http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/ Football Rankings and Predictions Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:56:09 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/27 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/27 Here are Atomic Football's estimates of who plays the most competitive schedules in the country across all divisions. Not the toughest schedules, but the Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:54:38 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/26 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/26 Here are the best Week 1 Matchups across all divisions. By "best" I mean that, accounting for home field advantage, these should be the closest games. Of Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:53:18 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/25 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/25 Something else a little different... Who is good enough, and whose schedule is favorable enough, to go undefeated during the 2009 regular season? Here goes... Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:51:36 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/23 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/23 I don't do these kinds of predictions very often, and, when I do, they're a little rougher than my game predictions. However, I thought it would be fun to Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:49:40 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/21 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/21 OK, you have two top-ranked teams - the Cartersville Chipmunks and the Portstown Possums. During the regular season, the two teams met head-to-head once in Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:46:25 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/20 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/20 I hate to ever criticize anything without being prepared to offer an alternative. So, I'll let you know up front, I will offer an alternative (at the end of Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:17 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/19 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/19 From a recent email, and posted with permission... Jim, I appreciate getting this from you, and I'm replying to you via e-mail because I'm not sure how to get Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:03:59 GMT Mario Rappi http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/18 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/18 I think the path of upsets from Florida to Temple is a really good illustrative point. I had thought about doing something similar: -take the best ranked team Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:10:33 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/17 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/17 Here's the response to one of my replies to a "nastygram" -- actually pretty positive (see below). I like to think that I'm enlightening one fan at a time. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:37:01 GMT Ron http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/16 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/16 I'm always astounded when people send me hate mail, because I always respond with "how the heck did you find me?!" It's usually just questioning why my ranking Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:19:50 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/15 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/15 Here are a few good lines I've received... (This one I won over with some logical arguments.) I guess H2H does not mean much with your FCS rankings. Liberty Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:50:02 GMT mrappi http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/14 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/14 This one guy just wrote: "Your ranking is laughable". You may not think that qualifies as "hate mail"... but I really hated that email. Seriously, the most Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:07:40 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/13 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/13 Interesting. Obviously there are many competing objectives here -- fairness, excitement, keeping the game duration in check, keeping strategy interesting. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:59:01 GMT Paul Kislanko http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/12 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/12 ... will probably not be a ... it outright. Here goes... OK, I chewed on it for a few weeks and I still don't like its taste. What I don't like about the Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:26:18 GMT jashburn http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/11 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rankingsandpredictions/message/11 An irate fan calls into the local sports talk radio station Monday evening so angry he can barely get the words out. Between the coughing, gagging, and