Warrior General Games

SoS - Strength of Schedule
O - Overall
P - Passing
R - Rushing


... Ranking ... SoS ..... Offense ........... Defense ......... Team Name
.. (Previous) ................ O - P - R ........... O - P - R

Alpha Conference:
. . . 05 (05) . . . 31 . . . 03 - 06 - 03 . . . 03 - 04 - 04 . . . Pacific Predators
. . . 06 (07) . . . 20 . . . 11 - 17 - 10 . . . 04 - 08 - 02 . . . Red Fort Royals
. . . 07 (06) . . . 29 . . . 07 - 13 - 05 . . . 07 - 10 - 03 . . . Prague Predators
. . . 08 (08) . . . 32 . . . 04 - 02 - 04 . . . 08 - 07 - 09 . . . Krakow Ice Dragons
. . . 09 (09) . . . 25 . . . 08 - 07 - 12 . . . 05 - 03 - 08 . . . Arzamas Arctic Wolves
. . . 11 (11) . . . 19 . . . 10 - 10 - 16 . . . 12 - 11 - 13 . . . Athens Odyssey
. . . 12 (13) . . . 28 . . . 09 - 12 - 10 . . . 13 - 15 - 10 . . . Alpha Quadrant Borg
. . . 14 (15) . . . 04 . . . 20 - 16 - 20 . . . 10 - 02 - 14 . . . Broadalbin Berserkers
. . . 19 (21) . . . 11 . . . 12 - 28 - 08 . . . 25 - 27 - 25 . . . Brooklyn Zu
. . . 21 (19) . . . 18 . . . 25 - 24 - 22 . . . 16 - 16 - 15 . . . Farmington Wolf Farm
. . . 22 (23) . . . 30 . . . 24 - 23 - 19 . . . 15 - 17 - 16 . . . Borgholm Bearcats
. . . 25 (26) . . . 12 . . . 28 - 22 - 28 . . . 21 - 22 - 21 . . . Warsaw Gods Of War
. . . 27 (28) . . . 10 . . . 26 - 21 - 25 . . . 26 - 21 - 31 . . . COMIC AVENGERS
. . . 29 (29) . . . 02 . . . 31 - 30 - 31 . . . 29 - 26 - 29 . . . Pripyat Patriots
. . . 31 (32) . . . 21 . . . 29 - 25 - 30 . . . 28 - 24 - 27 . . . Slovakia Stallions
. . . 32 (31) . . . 16 . . . 32 - 31 - 32 . . . 32 - 31 - 32 . . . San Juan RoughRiders CPU

Zeta Conference:
. . . 01 (01) . . . 08 . . . 01 - 01 - 06 . . . 02 - 05 - 01 . . . Omaha Spider Pigs
. . . 02 (02) . . . 15 . . . 02 - 04 - 02 . . . 06 - 08 - 07 . . . Island of Misfit Whores
. . . 03 (03) . . . 17 . . . 06 - 02 - 09 . . . 01 - 01 - 06 . . . Washington Wrath
. . . 04 (04) . . . 23 . . . 05 - 09 - 01 . . . 09 - 13 - 05 . . . Saratov Red Army
. . . 10 (10) . . . 22 . . . 21 - 27 - 17 . . . 14 - 18 - 12 . . . Pàràgònàl ƒòRçè
. . . 13 (14) . . . 07 . . . 13 - 15 - 15 . . . 19 - 19 - 19 . . . Czech Yourself
. . . 15 (12) . . . 03 . . . 16 - 29 - 07 . . . 20 - 20 - 23 . . . Warsaw Nightmare
. . . 16 (17) . . . 27 . . . 22 - 26 - 14 . . . 11 - 06 - 11 . . . High Diction
. . . 17 (16) . . . 14 . . . 19 - 20 - 18 . . . 17 - 12 - 18 . . . The Dead Presidents
. . . 18 (18) . . . 09 . . . 15 - 18 - 13 . . . 23 - 29 - 20 . . . Brazov Pantzdown
. . . 20 (20) . . . 05 . . . 18 - 11 - 23 . . . 24 - 23 - 24 . . . Kansas City Gridiron Juggernauts
. . . 23 (22) . . . 24 . . . 23 - 14 - 26 . . . 18 - 14 - 17 . . . Tjernobyl Nuclear Mutants
. . . 24 (24) . . . 01 . . . 17 - 08 - 24 . . . 22 - 25 - 22 . . . Serbia Swarm
. . . 26 (25) . . . 26 . . . 14 - 05 - 21 . . . 30 - 30 - 30 . . . Dublin Doomriders
. . . 28 (27) . . . 13 . . . 27 - 19 - 27 . . . 31 - 32 - 28 . . . Katowice Vasa Kings
. . . 30 (30) . . . 06 . . . 30 - 32 - 29 . . . 27 - 28 - 26 . . . Nordsea Raiders

We've maintained that stranglehold on the #1 spot....

What's that? It's SOS we're #1 in. Oh well, it's still #1 in something :-)

That's the way to look at the positives mudcat.

Originally posted by mudcatmike
We've maintained that stranglehold on the #1 spot....

What's that? It's SOS we're #1 in. Oh well, it's still #1 in something :-)

This and your offense/rushing defense.

I just want to make sure i understand the SoS thing.

So our team is currently ranked #3 in SoS. That means if you combine the records of the teams we've played so far, they would have the 3rd best win/loss percentage, right?

By the end of the season, the only difference in SoS between teams in the same conference will be the interconference team they played in week one?

So then us having the 3rd highest SoS so far means that our road from here on out at about the midpoint of the season is the 3rd easiest?

More or less, what you said. Except from the usual upsets!

Originally posted by Reggie Smash
I just want to make sure i understand the SoS thing.

So our team is currently ranked #3 in SoS. That means if you combine the records of the teams we've played so far, they would have the 3rd best win/loss percentage, right?

By the end of the season, the only difference in SoS between teams in the same conference will be the interconference team they played in week one?

So then us having the 3rd highest SoS so far means that our road from here on out at about the midpoint of the season is the 3rd easiest?

Not really. Here is the explanation I got last year.

Originally posted by adamantenigma
Originally posted by nd_safety

... when you blow teams out, it hurts their rankings more than if it is a close game, which in turn hurts your SoS.
... well, not quite.

The SoS is a rolling average of all of your weekly pregame snapshots, with each snapshot showing how that week's opponent was faring in the season prior to their match-up with your team. I keep it as a pre-game view (as opposed to a post-game view), to avoid the unfortunate consequence of blowing out the other team, because as you point out, that would hurt your own ranking.

40% of each snapshot is based on the other teams' winning percentage prior to the game they play you, and 60% is that team's previous listing in the Power Rankings. To get the Power Ranking (whole number) into a comparable number with the winning percentage (thousandths), I have to use a calculation, which is: 1-(Power Ranking*1.5%).


I don't know that this will help, but I'll provide an example for the Prague Predators' first two games of the season:

Week 1: Danzig Raytheon (0-0 & Ranked 21st in my pre-season starter level comparison)

1-(21*1.5%) = .685

Since it was the first week, the opponent's .000 winning percentage didn't count, so the SoS was exclusively based on their previous Power Ranking of 21. In other words, the Prague Predators Week 1 SoS ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=2182255 ) was a direct reflection of their opponents' pre-season ranking ( http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=2114372 ), since no win/loss records could be factored in.


Week 2: Russian Red Stars (0-1 & Ranked 26th in the Week 1 Power Rankings)

(.000*40%) + ((1-(26*1.5%))*60%) = .366


The average of those two weekly SoS calculations (.685 & .366) was .526, which at the time put the Prague Predators as the 30th highest SoS, which was shown on the forum post: http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=2197828

Edited: In case you want to look at the whole thread, here is it. There is a little more explanation in there.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=2239365&page=2

Thank goodness, ND... that was the last thing I wanted to re-hash. Good thing you found to repost.

I <3 Prague

Whoa, my eyes glazed over in like 4.5 seconds.

I'll accept it as one of those 'mysteries of math and science' and trust that someone smart has worked out all the minor details. I'll just sit back and enjoy the fact that someone came up with some nerd-based power rankings system & leave it at that. Thanks!

Originally posted by adamantenigma
Thank goodness, ND... that was the last thing I wanted to re-hash. Good thing you found to repost.

I <3 Prague

too much math in there! In the end everyone will play with the same 15 opponents, that's all I know... o_O

Originally posted by Reggie Smash
Whoa, my eyes glazed over in like 4.5 seconds.

I'll accept it as one of those 'mysteries of math and science' and trust that someone smart has worked out all the minor details. I'll just sit back and enjoy the fact that someone came up with some nerd-based power rankings system & leave it at that. Thanks!
The basic principle is that even though you play the same teams as every other team in your conference with the exception of the one cross-conference game, the fact is that in GLB we have to deal with mid-season free agent signings and teams going CPU due to failed early season outcomes. So to make it fair I had to factor in how a team was doing at the time you played them, not by what their season-end outcome was.

There is, unfortunately, no way to make it fair and balanced across the conferences, so the best I could do was at least make it consistent. So it's based on whether the teams you face have a winning percentage over .500 and/or whether they were ranked in the top 16 of the league at the time you played them. If yes, SoS goes up... if not, it goes down.

wouldnt the weaker teams always end up with a tougher SoS, compared to the top teams? i would think teams like Omaha or Saratov would suffer because they dont play themselves. does that make sense?

and thanks for doing these

Thanks for the rankings.



I just want to finish 15-1 and get at least the #2 spot. Someone knock off Saratov and Washington for us!

Originally posted by turkishkamel
wouldnt the weaker teams always end up with a tougher SoS, compared to the top teams? i would think teams like Omaha or Saratov would suffer because they dont play themselves. does that make sense?
True on that. I think they should schedule an intra-squad scrimmage. Omaha offense vs Omaha defense.