NEW YORK—August 14, 2018—Morgan James’s new release, Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: How Obsolete Stats, Hidebound Thinking, and Human Bias Create College Football Controversies by Mike Nemeth, takes an in depth look at the current grading system for college football teams and offers a new and improved statistical standard for ranking teams performance.
College football statistics are skewed and inaccurate. They leave no room for addressing skill level and base success solely on wins and losses. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics dismisses the current, incomplete ranking system and presents a desperately needed new system developed by Mike Nemeth. He calls it the Relative Performance Grading (RPG) system of statistical measures. This RPG system gives college teams a numerical grade, exactly like they would receive in a classroom.
Nemeth offers expert insights into the factors that determine a team’s success, and why a team’s wins are not all that matter. He explains why sports analysts tend to overvalue and undervalue certain teams and points out the differences between well-played wins and losses and ugly wins and losses. Using basic mathematics and sound reasoning, Nemeth’s RPG system clarifies the confusion in traditional statistics and enhances the fan experience by highlighting the factors of a game that affect the outcome.
Just as the baseball statistic system underwent reform and improvement, it’s time for college football statistics to get an upgrade. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics allows teams to be ranked more accurately and fans and analysts to be better informed.
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About the Author: Mike Nemeth is a retired information technology executive and author. His previous works include: Defiled, a crime thriller and its sequel, The Undiscovered Country; Cinderella’s Slipper, a non-fiction book about the use of computer algorithms to rank college football teams; and 128 Billion to 1, the groundbreaking book about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Mike currently lives with his wife, Angie, and his rescue dog, Sophie, in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
More About This Title: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: How Obsolete Stats, Hidebound Thinking, and Human Bias Create College Football Controversies by Mike Nemeth, will be released by Morgan James Publishing on August 14, 2018. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics—ISBN 978-1683508571—has 100 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $9.95.
About Morgan James Publishing: Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)
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