Master Page Check

I checked the master page with all the links. I've completed the first 25 screens and have six to go. In comparison, the college football links page only has four screens of links.

Catching Up

I am officially four hours and forty-five minutes behind my goal, now. That means I should have been finished with the college football page and the NFL page and working somewhere beyond that. I will conquer.

Sites and Signals Update

The list is now checked and signaled down through David Rothman. Some links were added, a few on David including my interview with him.

Signals Updated

All the signals have been updated as far as the directory has been updated. This was a big week for initial updates. Most of the last initial updates will happen next week. Some of the entries that appear to be valid but are not will become evident in the next few weeks and will be removed. Rating sports has a high turnover rate. You have to be in love with it.

Update

The College Football Page has been updated through Eddie Pettis.

Sonny Moore Updated

The entry for Sonny Moore's Computer Power Ratings has been updated to his new site.

New Signals

Signals are updated from Sonny Moore through Kent Novick.

Disruption

Just as I was getting into this project my boss called me to come in six hours early. I will finish this hour and may have time to work some more later.

Pat Laffaye

Pat now has two systems. The description has been updated on the Round Robin Winning Percentage. The new one is the Expected Winning Percentage.

Sonny Moore

Sonny is psychic. His link was the next one to be updated and he sent me the information for his new web site. It's active and updated.

A Little More Time

I'm sitting at home with a pulled muscle. I woke up with it yesterday and went ahead to work. The first trip was normal but on the second one the pull got worse and proceeded to worsen throughout the day. I'm trying to avoid using it so I'm sitting in a comfortable chair with my laptop. It took about five minutes to figure out how to get out of bed this morning. I had to slide my foot toward me, then turn to my right carefully and put my hand on the floor. That gave me some leverage and thirty seconds later I was standing tall. I also have a drinking problem. It's not as bad standing up as sitting in a chair but it requires using my pulled muscle. I'm going to buy some straws. Today I will get a little further down the list as my muscle allows.

Progress Update

I'm about two-thirds of the way down the main page. Last entry finished was Justin Moore. All signals up to date to there.

Signals Updated

The signals have been updated and there are a few new ratings to view. http://www.nutshellsports.com/wilson/

Progress?

Yes, I am making progress. You certainly can't tell from all the stuff not being posted but I am in the process of switching HTML editors. The one I have used for years and years has suddenly decided to delete things from the main body. I'm getting the new one going.

Herman Matthews

Just past Kenneth Massey's listing, though you won't see it on the site, is my interview with Herman Matthews. We lost Herman and David Rothman in recent years. I've posted David's interview in a previous entry. Here is Herman Matthews': Interview of Herman Matthews

Update

The list has been updated through Kenneth Massey, whose site always gives me a headache. Abundant ratings and information. If you could see all the links I have to his site you would get a headache, too. Anyway, a good deal of the work I just did can't be seen on the site. Most of the links will be added to other pages when I get to them.

Signals Updated

I've updated the entries to green that have posted this season down to the place I have reached. All yellow lights indicate that the initial list has not appeared. Many retrodictive systems do not post until several weeks into the season.

Update

The main directory page is now checked down to Lawler.

Drew Pasteur and John David

The Fantastic 50 has been added to the NFL page. Their other ratings will be added later.

Update

This list has been carefully checked through Steven Jens which is indicated by the signal lights I am re-adding. I still have to go from Dr. Kambour downward. Once I finish this page I will add the NFL and UFL pages. The college men's basketball page is being compiled by Jon Rogers who has completed the college baseball page as well. The UFL, CFL, and NFL pages are maintained by Joe Kasulis. If you notice that a rating page has been updated to this season and shows the teams in order (not alphabetical) but the light is still yellow, please let me know.

Success So Far

I have updated to the point I thought I would reach last week - Gupta - who, incidentally, is apparently no longer rating. He must have gotten engulfed in some of the activities in which he was participating in those pictures. I shall continue into this week, now.

At It Again

How about that first week of football? I'll be glad when they start ending the week on Saturday. I have some time and am about to attack the directory. I didn't make it by the start of the season but I'll do what I can.

Finished All I Could

The College Football Rankings page has been updated somewhat. I had intended to get down to Gupta but my bedtime has come and gone. I will have to continue this later. The entries that have signals are the genuine new directory. Between the last signal and Gupta not all the entries are legitimate but hit and miss. After Gupta they are fairly reliable because none have been changed.

Getting Ready to Start Updating Pages

Most of the College Football page is ready. I'm going through it, adding links from the Additional Information page. After that, I will go through all the entries to apply the green and yellow signals. Green means the current ratings are set up and yellow means the ratings are outdated but expected to be posted later in the season. I also have to change some of the link wording so that everything is consistent. After I post the College Football page the NFL page will be next.

Brian Fremeau

The Fremeau Efficiency Index has been added to the directory.

Better BCS

The pre-season MegaRanking is posted at Nutshell Sports.

Dan O'Malley

Dan's Rankings have been added to the directory. Most of the new ratings being posted were located by Jon Rogers.

The First Action of the Season

The latest and first NCAA Oddsmaker Ranking is now posted at Nutshell Sports. There's not a lot of change from last season.

Kenneth Massey

The College Football Ranking Consensus has been added to the directory.

Brian Boggo

Boggo Team Rankings has been added to the directory.

Getting Closer

Both the new season and my progress are getting closer. I did manage to get my site back in order after the chaos of moving everything to the newer laptop. I also added a new CFL entry thanks to Joe Kasulis, the maintainer of the CFL list. Next week is looking good. I have a lot of finishing up to do.

Jon Dokter

Entropy has been updated. I forgot to tell you.

Give and Take

The part of my web site I maintain for David is on my newer laptop. My part of the site is on the old laptop. Unfortunately, the old laptop no longer comprehends the home wi-fi. It does, however, understand the wi-fi from my Samsung Epix. That would be fine but I don't want to pay for an extra line just to upload my web site. My new Palm Pre is the greatest phone in the world except for two things - its Google Maps app doesn't let me log in so I can get my saved locations (Google's fault) and, as far as I know, nobody has written an application so that I can use the wi-fi on my Pre to upload files from the old laptop. I could pay AT&T twice as much to tether the laptop to the Pre but for that price I could have two data lines and there wouldn't be a problem except for the money flowing out of my pocket. So today I am going to have to move the partial web site to the new laptop. Bummer.

Get Your Ratings Posted

Kenneth Massey is compiling his college football Ranking Comparison. If yours are ready, let him know.

Bad Weekend

I'm going to take a nap and hope I wake up before I have to go to work. A connection on my car kept them from getting readings on my car to inspect it. They sent me to another place but their computer was down. That will now wait until next week. I took my daughter to start a bank account. She needed two forms of ID that will have to wait for later. My wife got sick and I have to take her to the doctor tomorrow. We went to get my wife a new phone and found out it was a lot cheaper on the Internet. I have to order it, now. There were other things that happened like someone screwing up the date on my loan. I'll stop there. Maybe I can wake up long enough to get something posted later. So, how was your day?

Two Days Off

Hopefully, in between other things that always inconveniently pop up, I will have a few hours to work on the directory this "weekend."

Canadian Football League Power Rankings

Joe has added the Canadian Football League Power Rankings to the CFL page.

New Site for You to Talk about your Sports Site

I set up a new blog for those who want to publicize their own work. Post news or ratings or ask questions or whatever.

Brian McAtee

Quality Champions Rankings has been updated to its new site.

Peter Mucha

Remember the Monkey Ratings? Peter Mucha is back with the Random Walker Rankings.

Back to Normal

Okay, the job change is finished and I'm getting used to the very different hours. I've gotten my email straightened out and started working on the directory, again. A fairly smooth transition.

Great Season in NBA

In the NBA the Nutshell Combo was the best against the spread followed by Nutshell Girl. Wish I could have been up there. I guess I get half an award and Nutshell Girl gets a half. She did have seven more wins than anyone else against the line. I did well as far as bias goes, coming in second to Least Squares. Of course, I feel a little better knowing Least Squares came in late in the season while I was there from the beginning. We are also doing MLB but we're both behind schedule and there's nobody to tell us how well we're doing. Todd only has so much time.

Status

Getting close to the end of the page in college football. The tedious part is almost finished except for the Additional Listings page. The rest will be fun.

Catherwood Rating System

The Catherwood Rating System has been added to the directory.

Updates to Superlist

When I didn't win an award on Todd Beck's site this season (Nutshell Girl did) I thought I was going to have to kick myself off the list. Fortunately I still hold second place (there's only room for two) so I get at least one more season, making two for me. Jeff Sagarin will be replaced this season by Payne College Football Power Ratings as a retrodictive. The top contenders this season for predictive were Kambour, Nutshell, StatFox, Sagarin, Pigskin, Bemiss, and Massey. Unfortunately for the Girl, she didn't win a category that would get her closer to the Superlist but I'm proud to say that she has won an award in each of her first two complete seasons.

Dezenzio TSRS

The True Statistical Rating of Strength has been added.

David Knight

The RoundTable Ratings have been added to the college football page. Other entries that will later be added to their respective pages are NFL, men's college basketball, NBA, and college baseball, most including predictions.

I'm Baaaack!

Had to do a little job change. Things are almost back to normal, now.

StatFox

StatFox Power Ratings have been added to the directory. Ratings that will later be added to their respective pages are Arena and CFL football, College Men's basketball, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, and NASCAR.

Real Time RPI

This system has been added. Entries for men's and women's basketball ratings and RPI's as well as NFL will be added later on their respective pages.