See ?

As I said in my reply too, only South Carolina is not lined up with your Super Powers 2012 in the exact position they would be, if it were just Win Percentage over the last 3 years. And, they only 1 position off that. And, that because of the 5 arbitrarily assigned to the gamecocks for their coaching a 5 rank for coaching when, as I see it, Steve Spurrier has proved beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he isn’t the same coach when he was at Florida. Would you rank him the top 5 rank for his time at Florida ? I would. Then, what is he at South Carolina comparing his work there to his work at Florida ? About a 2 ?

Then, all 14 teams would line up exactly as their win percentage over the last 3 years.

How would I do it, this 2012 Super Powers ?
1. Look at all 109 recruits signed by a coach at a SEC school.
2. See how many are currently still on their roster.
3. Get an average # of stars count from Scout.com or from Rivals for those.
4. Compare that with the talent at the 14 SEC schools.
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5. Look at the schedules, or lack thereof, for 2012. See how many of those 12 regular seasons’ games are against teams who made the AP Poll Top 25.
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6. Look at the record of each of the 14 coaches recently against teams who made the AP Poll Top 25.
7. Assign that value to the 1 games they play 2012 against teams who made the top 25.
8. Factor in talent by looking at what the coach had on hand for talent before when he played teams who achieved the top 25, and see if talent had anything to do with beating these teams who made top 25 he lost everyone of recently.
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I don’t think the list turns out any differently. Not by much. But, it might move Georgia up slightly from the # 8 in The SEC in your analysis to more like # 6, which is what he is over the last 4 years anyway.

Also, I think although the win percentage is 59 percent or 80 percent, you just give them 5.9 or 8.0 instead of 59 or 80 percent win percentage.

Too much of this number is made up by just that, win percentage over the last 3 years. And, it doesn’t take into account attrition of 33 scholarship players just gone from UGA. And, it doesn’t take into account the supreme cupcake schedule, especially for my seasons’ tickets, we at UGA play this season.

You might also want to factor in Suspensions for key games, such as UGA vs Mizzou, where we have our entire secondary out for the game.

I think the idea is right to attempt to calculate the Super Powers of The SEC for 2012 season. You just have to factor in really bad losses to teams the coach should not have lost to who didn’t even make the top 25 the season he played them. You just have to factor in his won/loss record against teams End of Season who actually achieved the top 25 and the top 10. And, then you just need to calculate how many of those teams there are he actually plays 2012.

Then, you can multiply the answer to all this times the games played, and see what their record should be based upon what he has recently been getting accomplished in these type games.

Sometimes, however, 1 player can have such a huge effect on the season, that you have to figure that out. Cam Newton for example. Keith Marshall could be a game changer for us 2012, not to Cam Newton level, but certainly enough to get us past losing to South Carolina 3 years in a row, I hope.

What you are left with is winning percentage over the last 3 years.

Shallow analysis.