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Top 25 Heat IndexTM

The Top 25 Heat Index was designed to identify and highlight the teams playing the best right now.

Year: 2009 | 2008 |

Week: Pre-season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |

Top 25 Heat Index- Week 16TM
Who's playing the best right now?
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Computing the Top 25 Heat IndexTM

The Heat Index is perhaps the most subjective of any of the six main ranking systems employed at Fan Formula. After many permutations the Hot Streak Thermometer landed on a formula including:

  • A team’s performance over the past four games
  • Weighted 40%, 30%, 20%, 10% so the most recent games count most heavily
  • With performance based on both the strength of a team’s opponents and margin of victory

The Hot Streak Thermometer rating is then scaled to be readily recognizable as degrees Fahrenheit with a baseline of 70°F for average teams, cold teams dipping down into the 40s, and hot teams in the upper 90s.

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Fan Formula is the first interactive site for creating personalized Top 25 computer rankings. Fan Formula's mission is to revolutionize how fans debate the most talked about questions in sports including: Who is #1 in college football? As you dial in your preferences we crunch the data and display your custom-made Top 25. Each week your Top 25 is updated and sent out, based on the results of Saturday's games.

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Atomic Football Rankings

2009 College Football Atomic Sports Rankings

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The Rankings

Vegas Spread Index

Estimates who the odds makers would favor from top to bottom. More »

Quality Win-Loss Matrix

Ranks teams solely on three factors: (1) Who did you play? (2) Where did you play them? and (3) Did you win or lose? More »

True Style Points

Quantifies performance based on margin of victory. More »

Road Warrior Rankings

Calculates the biggest victories in opponents’ home stadiums. More »

Top 25 Heat Index

Identifies and highlights the teams playing the best right now. More »

Undefeated SoS

Ranks the undefeated teams based on strength of schedule. More »

Atomic Home

All six rankings. Home »

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