Jeff Sagarin (born 1948)[1] is an American sports statistician known for his development of a method for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports.[2] His Sagarin Ratings have been a regular feature in the USA Today sports section from 1985 to 2023,[2][3] have been used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to help determine the participants in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since 1984,[4] and were part of the college football Bowl Championship Series throughout its history from 1998 to 2014.[2][5]
- ^ Glockner, Andy (26 August 2013). "Verbatim: Stats guru Jeff Sagarin (Part 1)". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
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- ^ West, Brady T. (2008) "A Simple and Flexible Rating Method for Predicting Success in the NCAA basketball tournament: Updated Results from 2007," Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2, Article 8. doi:10.2202/1559-0410.1099 (Sec. 2.2)
- ^ Official BCS Website: Standings
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