Navigate’s College Football Playoff Prediction Model
ABOUT NAVIGATE’S CFP MODEL
- Several years ago, we built a College Football Playoff (CFP) prediction model using Elo scores. If Elo sounds familiar, it is most commonly seen in sports via FiveThirtyEight.com.
- When initially building our model, we used the poll results from the pre-CFP era to give us a more robust sample of how people in and around the sport of college football have ranked teams in the past 25 years.
- Our model is calibrated to prioritize and weight the factors that appear to influence the committee and deprioritize those that don’t.
Read the full article in AthleticDirectorU here.