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COOPER women's NCAA basketball ratings

Silver Bulletin • 86 implied HN points • 15 Mar 26
🎾 Sports NCAA
  1. Final regular-season COOPER power ratings have been published for all 363 Division I women's basketball teams, tracking each team’s highs and lows over the year.
  2. COOPER is a new Elo/Bayesian-style rating system that blends wins, margin of victory, tempo, preseason polls, and conference strength, and it weights recent, close, conference, and tournament games more heavily with some customization for the women’s game.
  3. Paid subscribers get the full dataset and extras — offensive/defensive ratings, strength of schedule and home-court factors, an objective-only version, historical season-end ratings back to 2002–03, a spreadsheet to convert ratings into win probabilities, and NCAA tournament forecasts coming after the brackets.

Why Should Government Solve This Problem?

Points And Figures • 453 implied HN points • 13 Mar 24
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics NCAA
  1. College athletics is undergoing a major transformation due to changes like the transfer portal and name, image, likeness (NIL) rules.
  2. Coaches like Nick Saban are important figures in guiding the future of college sports amid these changes.
  3. The author questions the need for government intervention in the evolving college athletic marketplace and advocates for letting the free market and NCAA adapt on their own.

Sneak Peek: 68 Teams Video

Hoop Vision • 58 implied HN points • 06 Mar 23
🎾 Sports NCAA
  1. The '68 Teams' video will be released on Selection Sunday.
  2. The video will highlight one observation about every NCAA tournament team.
  3. Already completed 47 teams for the video.

The Kournikoving of College Sports and Its Discontents

House of Strauss • 49 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
🎾 Sports NCAA
  1. Cavinder twins challenge NCAA by embracing their value as female athletes under new NIL rules
  2. NIL era highlights market trends where attractiveness can outweigh athletic skill in women's sports endorsements
  3. NCAA faces dilemma as market forces collide with long-standing traditions and regulations in women's college sports
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The Balkanization of College Football

Malt Liquidity • 1 implied HN point • 23 Sep 23
🎾 Sports NCAA
  1. The lifespan of college football coaches is short, mirroring the trend of rapid success and replacement.
  2. College football revenue has more than tripled since 2003, with a focus on plowing money into massive football programs.
  3. The college football system underwent changes with the BCS, playoffs, and player transfers, leading to a focus on revenue over traditional aspects of the sport.