README.md

marblr

During the 2017 NCAA football season, David Burge proposed a simple, easy-to-comprehend system for determining which NCAA football teams would be invited to the four-team playoff - the "marble game." The rules of the game are simple:

The motivation behind the #marblegame is simple:

The point of the #MarbleGame is that CFB playoff selection could be simple, open, & transparent, not backroom committees lobbying for the outcome of a beauty contest.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 3, 2017

Package features

The marblr package allows R users to simulate the marble game for NCAA football seasons from 1995 to 2017 (data scraped from Massey Ratings). Data from 2018 games will be updated as it becomes availalbe.

The marble_game function takes four inputs:



alspur/marblr documentation built on May 13, 2019, 11:51 p.m.