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EA Sports Will Not Publish College Football Game Next Year, Future Plans in Doubt
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01-25-2014, 10:10 PM | #561 |
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Re: EA Sports Will Not Publish College Football Game Next Year, Future Plans in Doubt
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Not at home so I can't reply in depth and will do so later but the thing that jumps out to me about your argument is that the game sucked at determining this stuff already despite the fact the BCS has been in place for years. I doubt the fact that a new system is in place would have prevented them from releasing a game. |
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01-26-2014, 02:47 PM | #562 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It's exactly what windfall means. They don't need to be getting an some huge lump sum payment for damages for it to be a windfall - just knowing that they'll be getting back one of their top earners unexpectedly, and the guaranteed money that follows qualifies as a windfall. Oh, and by the way, it absolutely is one of their top earners. NCAA was regularly a top 5-10 earner for EA every year. Over the past 4 years posted, it was EA's #5 earning property. It might not be FIFA, but it's certainly one of their most significant properties. |
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01-26-2014, 03:14 PM | #563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There's nothing special about the phrase "power ranking." The committee of 13 is going to have their own power rankings. The BCS in and of itself was nothing more than a power ranking, made up of 2 subjective human polls and an averaged objective computer ranking. All 5 computer models, the AP/Harris Polls, and Coaches' poll were also power rankings. Power rankings have determined who plays for the FBS/DI-A championship for as long as it has existed, and they will continue to play a role because there are simply too many teams and unbalanced schedules to use record alone. Even with an 8 team playoff, and 5 guaranteed spots to Power 5 conference champs, you'd be using power rankings to fill out the rest of the bracket. What the NFL does is irrelevant. There are only 32 teams, they play a 16 game schedule, 12 of them make the playoffs, and schedules are far more balanced across the board. The NFL doesn't need a power ranking to determine playoff worthy teams. As far as NCAA14 is concerned, just putting the top 4 BCS teams in would be fine. As far as the real world is concerned, keeping the BCS in play would probably do a better job than a bunch of ADs who can't possibly watch every game to come up with objective rankings and aren't required to consider any computer polls or even human polls with larger sample sizes. |
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01-26-2014, 04:27 PM | #564 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oh and when you say that the computer ratings in the BCS was objective, in theory they were but you have to realize that they were changed and tweaked again and again, even during the 2014 season, with no explanation on how or why. It was very subjective when you really study it. And it wasn't even a true "average" since the first and last ranking were dropped. I don't agree that the BCS itself was a power ranking, it was a combination of polls and a very shady computer ranking that never really was vetted properly.
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01-26-2014, 04:57 PM | #565 |
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They could have kept the BCS ranking to determine the top 4.
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01-26-2014, 06:32 PM | #566 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The idea that EA might have bailed on the NCAA series to avoid having to incorporate the playoff is incredibly far-fetched. There will still be coaches and writers polls. It's probable that there will be a strong correlation between the top 4 of those polls and the temas that get invited to the playoff, so adding it to the game would have presented little problem. |
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01-26-2014, 08:31 PM | #567 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There was absolutely nothing shady about the computer rankings. If anything, they're a hell of a lot more trustworthy than either of the human polls. The only sense "shadiness" involved comes from homer fans who don't understand the basic algebra that underpins all the computer models.
The Bowl Coalition existed for 3 seasons, and sought to accomplish the same as the BCS that replaced it, to end the split national championships by guaranteeing #1 vs. #2. Agreements were in place to release the #1 and #2 teams from their conference affiliated games to play in the Bowl Coalition National Championship. The problem that arose was that the Bowl Coalition did not include the Pac-8 and Big Ten at all. Two of the three Bowl Coalition championships were AP#1 vs. AP#2, the third was AP#1 vs. AP#3 because Penn State was #2 and in the Rose Bowl. For as long as there has been a unified national championship, the competitors have been determined by polls, by power rankings.
If they're going to patch in a playoff, they sure as hell can use that average to determine the playoff seeding. Whether or not they can use the licensed BCS assets along with a playoff is another story, but you can be damn sure they can use an average regardless of what happens. |
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