Keep your eyes open because this blog is about to start the new season.

Current Planned Projects

1. Link Jon Rogers' NCAA Basketball page
2. Correct links on master page - that will take a while
3. Get links from Jon's page
4. Make new pages from master page

That's going to take some time.

Began The Fun Today

I checked all the links on our master page and found some to be "lost" or redirected. That I will work to correct after I get Jon Rogers' NCAA Basketball page linked in. My schedule is crazy so I have abandoned giving estimates on when I will have each item finished. Just watch this page and I will tell you after the fact. I am currently working on the index page (College Football Ratings and Rankings). I have made a template out of it but I want to check all the links before I upload it.

College Baseball Ranking News

I can tell you one thing that I saw when I had a brief look at my out-of-control email. Jon Rogers has updated the college baseball page of the directory at this LINK.

Hang In There!

I almost got to work on the directory last week. I'm going to have it ready before football season if it kills me. No, wait, then I'd have to find a replacement. Hey, how would I do that if I'm dead? I think it's bedtime.

Post Your Site

We're still waiting for you raters to get excited about your sites. Anything you have on your site, especially unusual or new thing, should be posted at our ratings site where you advertise your wares. Well? It's HERE!

Updated Directory Pages

Several of the pages have been updated in the off-season. These pages are College Men's Basketball, UFL, NFL, College Football, CFL, and College Baseball. The rest of the site should be updated by the beginning of the football season. More information later.

3,000 and Counting

This blog recently had its 3,000th visitor. Get ready for new posts and pages. Get ready for football. And new pages. And new raters. Ah, the future is great.

Meanwhile ...

The Basketball Superlist is coming to a close with the NCAA Championship coming down. See who it thinks is the best.

Superlist

My first official act of the 2011 Football Season has happened. I sent the one change to David. Eight components will remain but David will be adding the new retrodictive member soon. The real retrodictive winner was the Superlist (per Todd Beck's Prediction Tracker for the second time) but it would make a strange member of itself.

The Next Project

The next page to be posted will be the College Basketball Men's page. Should be up in the next few days for your critique.

UFL Page Posted

The page for the United Football League has been posted. Unfortunately, only my ratings and Joe Kasulis's are there. Joe will be sending me the other links and I hope to have them posted next week.

Jeff Sagarin

Mr. USA Today Ratings Dude's entry has been changed in the NFL and College Football lists. The other sports will be updated as we post the pages. The Kiva site is apparently history along with the Indiana high school boys' and girls' basketball and Women's College Basketball, college soccer, and PGA. I assume he's posting them somewhere else. If anyone knows, please contact me.

Jaakko Suni

His rankings are back and added to the listing.

Another Milestone

The NFL page has been updated with all the active systems. That brings the total to NFL, College Football, College Baseball, and CFL. The other pages are smaller and will be updated in the near future. The NFL page has 46 listings. College football has well over 100. I lost count. CFL has 12, College baseball has 8. Most listings have multiple links. The next pages to be updated in order are the UFL, NCAA Basketball, Auto Racing, Soccer, NCAA Men's Hockey, NBA, NCAA Women's Basketball, Women's NCAA Hockey, and Major League Baseball. Once I get all the pages set up, it will be a matter of updating listings in the various sports by their entries on our master page. This is where we keep sites that have disappeared and put new sites we find.

A Major Milestone

Today I finished the College Football page. All signals are go (to be checked through the season) and all entries are listed. From here I will gather any additional information from the NFL page to add to the master page. The new NFL page will be made from that. After that will be the NCAA Basketball page, then the NASCAR page. From this point the objective is to redo all the current pages. There will also unfortunately be some structural changes but it's for order and usability. See the finished College Football Page.

Things are Starting to Look Good

I have finished the main page down through Ryan Williams. All I lack are David Wilson, John Wobus, Peter Wolfe, and Steve Wrathell. and the four listings at the bottom. Once I finish those I will begin replacing the other pages. It will be smooth sailing through the rest of the overhaul. The signals are updated, too.

Getting Closer to Real Visible Progress

There are 95 green signals, 8 yellows that probably won't show, and 21 entries left to check before the big overhaul of the other pages. Whew! The first pages to be updated will be the College Baseball (already done by Jon Rogers), College Basketball (being assembled by Jon Rogers or me if I get to it first, then maintained by Jon), CFL (already being maintained by Joe Kasulis), the UFL (I don't remember whether or not I've posted this one yet), NFL (Joe Kasulis), and NASCAR (Steve Pugh will maintain this one and possibly others).

Joseph Dise

CPI Ratings has been added to the list.

Jon Rogers

The BCS-Compliant Ranking has been added to this entry.

Update

I've completed the college football page down through Jeff Sagarin.

Signals Updated

I've updated the signals so there are a lot of new ratings. I also made some changes to some entries and am currently working my way down the page from David Rothman.

A New Interview

Jim Ashburn of AtomicFootball.com is doing an interview to be linked from the directory. I'll let you know when it is official.

Got Back Late

Well, I didn't get anything done on the directory as I had one less day off. We got back late from town and now it's way past my bedtime. Oh, well, my next day off will be three or four days away.

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.