Power Rankings

So this semester some of my stats buddies and I decided to form an intramural soccer team. We didn't sign up early enough so they put us in the upper division. Maybe it's not common knowledge but a bunch of math geeks are not exactly what I would refer to as "upper division material." So the Daily Universe (the BYU School newspaper) does power rankings each week for each intramural sport and guess where the "Statistical Outliers" ended up? Click on the title of this post to see the rankings or you can trust me that we came in at dead last. Yep that's right 186th out of 186 teams. I guess our team name now has a double meaning.

To say that we are bad would be a gross understatement. One week at half time the refs came up to us and asked us if we just wanted to call it at that point instead of enduring another half. The next week the goalie of the opposing team got so bored that he came out of the goal and subsequently scored three times. Last week we put in our first goals and had our best game of the season and still ended up losing 9 to 3.

Anyways, I sure got a good laugh out of that. On the bright side we did finally put in our first goals so we've broken through that glass ceiling. Things are looking up!