In Week One I devised an index that measured weekly team performance. I have tweaked the computations slightly for Week Two and will continue to tweak the formula until I feel it is just right.
Since this is semi-subjective, there is no perfect formula—just like the BCS. Index numbers are on a sliding scale, negatives generally mean a loss and positives generally mean a win. The further from zero the better (or worse) the team performed.
This week, let's start off with some conference statistics which I did not have for Week One. The first is how each conference has performed through the first two weeks. I think these numbers are directionally correct as they line up with out-of-conference winning percentiles and whom the losses were against.
Conference Average
SEC 1.42
Big 12 1.38
Big Ten 1.28
Pac-10 0.94
MWC 0.05
C-USA (0.00)
ACC (1.22)
MAC (1.25)
1-A Indep (1.59)
Big East (1.68)
WAC (4.20)
Sun Belt (4.76)
In Week Two, East Carolina and Vanderbilt's performances put them at the top of the index. Washington State is dead last, which isn't too surprising, but Miami (FL) being so far down the list tells me that I need to do some more work on my index formulation (though the score was lopsided, as were total yards). Several teams did not play, some due to Gustav.
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