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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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208
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 1, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Sports
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| Abstract - #300514 |
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Title:
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The Bowl Championship Series: Still Crazy After All These Years
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Author(s):
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Hal Stern*+
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Companies:
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University of California at Irvine
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Address:
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Department of Statistics, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA
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Keywords:
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football ;
championship ;
ratings ;
prediction
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Abstract:
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The college football national championship for the highest level of competition is decided by a complicated arrangement called the Bowl Championship Series (also known as the BCS) that has been developed over the last 15 years. It remains a source of great controversy, heightened by the recent release of a ball called ``Death to the BCS''. This talk reviews the role of statistical methods in the BCS and also considers what an alternative approach to choosing a champion might be like.
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