For All The Marbles

College Football STANDINGS earned on the field, not voted. Started from @iowahawkblog & @CFBMarbleGame's idea, then built it out with our own adjustments.

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Every team has a pile.

Every game has a pot.

Win, and you take all the marbles.

The For All The Marbles Standings: objectively simple, for a chaotically beautiful game.

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Toledo 24, UMass 0.

A shutout at the Glass Bowl, and the home win takes a fifth of what @UMassFootball brought in. That's 11 marbles over to @ToledoFB, who are up to 147.

#BlockToledo #ForAllTheMarbles

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Fire Up Chips. @CMU_Football beat @SacHornetsFB 28-7 at Kelly/Shorts, and the 3 marbles that come with it put the Chips on 50. Sac State leaves with 10.

#StingersUp #ForAllTheMarbles

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We graded the committee's most recent rankings from last night against each team's Reasonable Range. What we found?

🔴 Overrated (3+ spots): Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, LSU, Oklahoma State
🟠 Slightly overrated (2 spots): Georgia, BYU, Ole Miss
🟢 Slightly underrated (2 spots): UCLA, Miami, Texas Tech
🔵 Underrated (3+ spots): Wake Forest, Arizona

By league: 7 of the SEC's 9 teams sit above their range. The Big Ten and the ACC have none.

A Reasonable Range is a run of teams each within 3% of the one in front in the For All The Marbles Standings, where a reasonable debate can happen. The verdict is the committee against that range, not against a single number of ours. Our Settled Rank always lands inside it.

AP, the simulated BCS and ESPN's Fan Blind-Resume are plotted too.

Spearman vs ours:
Standings: BCS .945, AP .925, CFP .919, Fans .842
Settled: BCS .948, CFP .936, AP .922, Fans .834

Three weeks of regular season left. The two boards agree more on the overall order than they did last week (.845 then, .919 now) and less on where each team sits: 14 of the committee's 25 were inside a Reasonable Range or one spot off it, now 11. Two or three spots on the seed line still moves a bye or a home game. We'll see what next week's slate does to it.

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How about this? We’ll work on making the version you would like to test and when it’s ready, give a toggle to change to your version and see how it differs.

[Herd Bros @TheCFBAdvocate]

@cfbmarbles is a fun account. I’m very tech illiterate for things like this, so unfortunately I have to “complain” (I prefer to see it as negotiating) instead of fix it myself lol.

Their about page makes sense to me, but I’d love to see it without the +10 per P4 game. Giving the same bump for Vandy and Georgia just doesn’t feel objectively correct. Plus, teams like WKU have two more P4 games than other G6, so when they lose it just boosts the P4 resume further because there’s more marbles to steal from a bad team. Am I understanding that part correct?

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@TheCFBAdvocate The thing is, the marble rules are configurable; starting marble, % transfer , etc. One could create a version where there is no P4 bump at all. This account has its own version the marble game explained in the video:

https://t.co/izFyUf3BPP

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@MattZollers5 @GeorgiaFootball @MizzouFootball @gamedayhue The “2010” line is for that decade. You’ll see it spans any games in that decade.

Sorry for the confusion, will work on clearer labels.

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Opposite ends of the same Saturday. @GeorgiaFootball came out of Ole Miss 84 marbles up; @MizzouFootball lost to Texas and fell seventeen places. Georgia puts in more than three times what Missouri does.

35 and 123 in, 158 in the pot.

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Our Team History loaded incorrectly. Here is the correct version:

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Both moved last week, in opposite directions. @BYUfootball fell eighth to thirteenth on the 77 they left in Salt Lake City; @BUFootball climbed nine places on Iowa State. BYU puts in more than twice what Baylor does.

38 and 79 in, 117 in the pot.

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@Vol_Football @AggieFootball @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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The smallest pot on the board, and a long way between them. @Vol_Football beat Kentucky and finished 78 up; @AggieFootball lost to South Carolina and fell fourteen places.

68 and 22 in, 90 in the pot.

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@VandyFootball @AlabamaFTBL @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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Twenty-one places up last week, the biggest climb on this board. @VandyFootball are 4-5 and put 23 in; @AlabamaFTBL beat LSU, climbed eight, and risk more than three times that.

76 and 23 in, 99 in the pot.

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@BYUfootball @BUFootball @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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@TexasTechFB @CowboyFB @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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Both of these climbed last week. @TexasTechFB are 8-1 and took two more places on West Virginia; @CowboyFB moved up six on a 66-28 night in Manhattan.

74 and 52 in, 126 in the pot.

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@LSUfootball @TexasFootball @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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One of these had the second heaviest week in the sport. @LSUfootball lost to Alabama, finished 91 down and fell eleven places; @TexasFootball went the other way, 48 up and four spots with it.

72 and 59 in, 131 in the pot.

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@NDFootball @BCFootball @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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The best week anybody in the sport had. @NDFootball took 103 marbles out of Miami and climbed four places. @BCFootball are 4-5 and finished that same week 40 down.

19 and 116 in, 135 in the pot.

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@WakeFB @SMUFB @gamedayhue Who's your pick?

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The only team on this board whose pile shrank in a week they won. @WakeFB beat an FCS side, which pays nothing, and still went backwards. @SMUFB climbed five places on Virginia Tech.

77 and 67 in, 144 in the pot.

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