RPI, WHIP or QB rating - What sports formula do you hate the most?

Question

RPI
The basic RPI formula is 1/4*(Winning Percentage) + 1/2*(Opponents' Average Winning Percentage) + 1/4*(Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage)

WHIP
Walks + Hits divided by Innings Pitched

QB Rating
a = (((Comp/Att) * 100) -30) / 20
b = ((TDs/Att) * 100) / 5
c = (9.5 - ((Int/Att) * 100)) / 4
d = ((Yards/Att) - 3) / 4

a, b, c and d can not be greater than 2.375 or less than zero.

QB Rating = (a + b + c + d) / .06

Answer 1

The QB Rating certainly does seem to be a bunch of randombly thrown together equations added up to create four artificial numbers to build a statistic that doesn't really mean anything...



That's probably the goofiest of the three.



I hadn't ever seen the RPI equation before. At first glance it would seem to me that your own winning percentage should be more than 1/4 and the opponents win percentage should maybe be a little less of the formula... It's probably taking into account most of the right factors, but it doesn't seem to address whether an inferior team plays a good team well or a good team plays badly against a team it should beat by a large margin. Nothing's perfect I guess.

Answer 2

QB rating

its so dumb because its not an accurate measurement of how good a QB is

it doesn't factor in some things like drops by the WR, the QB getting sacked or how many yrds the QB rushed for

there is a lot more you know just the little details of the game it misses and those details really add up in the end

Answer 3

Forget all of them!! Cricket's Duckworth/Lewis system for deciding how many runs a team needs to get if the game is rain affected tops the lot!



As Billy Birmingham explains it, "you multiply the number of balls bowled by the number of balls faced and then divide that by the average age of the batting side minus the number of spanners in a Sid Chrome Tool Kit."

Answer 4

I like RPI.

WHIP is a pointless stat.... except for fantasy

QB rating doesn't bother me.... what bothers me is how much the media seems to think that it is the ONLY stat that matters when talking about QBs.

Answer 5

QB rating

I've tried many times to understand that formula, but it's just too confusing.

Answer 6

haha... BCS system definitely sucks... RPI and QB rating are pretty confusing... But all of them are pretty useful...



Out of those three I'd prolly say RPI.

Answer 7

Although these are all great examples, the one that confuses me the most is the BCS system. I've read & watched a million & one things on it, and I still don't get it. It's complete crap!