Skynet Championship Series: Season Five

I can't believe it's the 5th season that I've been doing this...

Skynet is back! A wise machine, Agent Smith, once said in the Matrix: “Never send a Human to do a machine’s job.” These inspiring words ring true with the BCS. The time has now come to achieve the BCS purpose – by providing OBJECTIVE rankings. I realize this may be counter to my rooting interests, but it is the only fair way to determine two teams.

So, to be clear, here’s how I devise the standings each week:
1) I take the top 20 of the BCS standings.
2) I input each of the top 20's computer standings from each of 4 computer rankings (Sagarin, Anderson, Colley-Matrix, Wolfe; the other two aren't included because they input human rankings to start and are therefore biased).
3) I let excel calculate the standard deviation for each computer ranking distribution of the top 20. Then, Excel normalizes the distribution, and fits EACH computer ranking onto a 1-20 scale.
4) Finally, the normalized-computer averages are determined (i.e. if Florida is ranked 5.76, 2.55, 2.21, 5.77 in 4 of the polls, which is an average of 4.07, which equals their SCS ranking. This means that according to the polls, they are approximately the 4th-best team in the country).

Most underrated by the humans: Michigan St., Missouri (because they are undefeated?), Ok State (because they are undefeated?)

Most overrated by the humans: Oregon, Boise, Alabama, Ohio St, Iowa!

NOTE: things are a bit wacky in the computers due to the plethora of undefeated teams... but will probably even out once more games are played.

Of course, there is a long time until the end of the season though. And remember, these are not my rankings, they are the rankings of the only objective entity in the universe... Skynet!

2010 Skynet Rankings - Week of 10/18

2010		SCS	BCS	Sched Rnk	Harris	Coaches
1	oklahoma	1.18	1	13	4	3
2	auburn	2.23	4	33	5	5
3	Mich St	2.50	7	53	8	8
4	LSU	2.73	6	28	6	6
5	TCU	4.78	5	77	3	4
6	Missouri	4.87	11	44	16	16
7	boise st	5.01	3	73	2	2
8	oregon	7.62	2	113	1	1
9	Ok St	9.51	14	89	15	15
10	Stanford	9.63	12	29	13	14
11	Utah	11.40	9	126	9	9
12	Alabama	13.74	8	58	7	7
13	Fla St	13.75	17	79	17	17
14	wisconsin	13.89	13	92	11	11
15	Ohio St	14.89	10	75	10	10
16	Arizona	15.14	18	66	18	18
17	Iowa	15.92	15	78	12	12
18	texas	16.86	19	18	22	22
19	Nebraska	16.89	16	97	14	13
20	W. Va.	18.82	20	95	19	19