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On Sunday mornings in November, before he heads to Dallas for the weekly College Football Playoff selection committee meetings, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez crunches numbers in his office at Kellner Hall. Alvarez sits at his desk using the iPad the CFP gave him, and compiles a draft of his top 30 teams.Along with the help of basketball sports information director Patrick Herb, who for a third straight year will assist Alvarez with CFP statistics, Alvarez has prioritized six categories he feels best indicate a championship-caliber team.His most dependable metrics are shared only within the closed-door meeting room, but one of them is strength of schedule.Its so important, because not all stats are created equal when you compare bodies of work, Herb said. That has to be a part of your evaluation and a big part of your evaluation.Its one of the most frequently mentioned metrics used to explain the Tuesday night rankings, which begin Nov. 1, but its also one of the most subjective and debatable. There are fans who crave more, wanting the committees strength of schedule formula spelled out in detail, but its impossible because the interpretation of it is left to each individual committee member -- and each typically uses about four to five variations of it.Were all aware of how each of them are calculated and what the differences are within those, said committee chair Kirby Hocutt. We have all the metrics in front of us, and how we choose to interpret that particular one is up to each persons own discretion.The most elementary, public interpretation is given on Tuesday nights when the committee rewards teams that have earned the most wins against opponents ranked in the committees top 25, and wins against teams with records above .500, but the debates in the room span almost two days and go deeper. With three new committee members in the room this year -- former Central Michigan coach Herb Deromedi, former Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower, and Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens -- the committees collective view on strength of schedule will have different opinions this fall.Still, theyre all given the same information.No one relies exclusively on any kind of a metric, said CFP executive director Bill Hancock. The metrics for anyone who crunches the numbers in that way is a starting point, but thats all it is. Filling in the details to create the story of each team is what the committee does. Those details that the committee discusses could never be captured in a single number.Strength of schedule is also one of the tiebreakers the committee must consider when ranking comparable teams, along with championships won, head-to-head results, and outcomes against common opponents (without promoting margin of victory). The committee members are free to use statistics outside of those provided by SportSource Analytics (the data company the CFP has a contract with) -- as long as they understand where they come from and how theyre compiled.Alvarez uses a formula developed by Michigan State director of basketball operations Kevin Pauga, who developed KPIsports.net as an undergrad in 2003. His data is used by the basketball selection committee as a complement to RPI. His strength of schedule formula tries to account for everything you can quantify in terms of what makes one game more difficult than another while eliminating human bias.Playing a good team on the road versus playing them at home, its two different things, so just going straight by opponent winning percentages is limited, Pauga said. Beyond opponent winning percentage, if youre factoring in the location of the game, the strength of your opponents record, I think we can all agree not all 8-4s have the same meaning to them. Its digging deeper than win-loss records.The committee is given 128 team sheets in their playoff binder, filled with data from SportSource Analytics on offense, defense, special teams and schedule strength. The latter is broken down into 10 different opponent categories, such as opponents opponents records, including opponents losses to FCS teams. They can also quickly learn from the sheet the number of wins against Current CFP Top 25 teams, and a teams record against Power 5 opponents and also Group of 5 opponents.Hancock said none of the committee members rely solely on the data provided by SportSource Analytics. The committee analyzes teams against each other in groups of six or eight, so a strength of schedule ranking from 1-128 is irrelevant to them unless there is a huge discrepancy.Its much easier to evaluate and compare and dig deeply into the details when youre only evaluating six or eight teams against each other, Hancock said. ... They can look at it and say, You know, they played the team that is second in the division and has played well all season and they played them on the road at night and won. No metric can evaluate strength of schedule to that level of detail like the committee can. Cheap Shoes Outlet Stores . 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Luke Brattan was dreaming of playing in Europe after his shock signing for Manchester City this time last year.Now hes simply looking to get his career back on track in the A-League this season.The 26-year-old midfielder made worldwide headlines last October when he joined the Premier League powerhouse, shortly after securing a release from Brisbane Roar for unpaid superannuation.It was a signing that came out of nowhere - and one that seemed to lead to nowhere as well.Brattan never came close to playing for City and he also failed to make an appearance in the English Championship during an unhappy, injury-interrupted loan spell with Bolton Wanderers.In fact, his 90 minutes for Melbourne City in last months FFA Cup win over the Brisbane Strikers was his first senior game since May, 2015 - the last time he wore the Roars orange jersey.Skeptics always saw Brattans switch as a way for the City Football Group to work around A-League transfer regulations, and when he was loaned back home earlier in the pre-season, they were proved right.Brattan is now a key man for City, and one of several players coach John van t Schip will be counting on to pick up the playymaking slack left behind by Aaron Mooy.ddddddddddddI just want to be consistent all year and injury free, Brattan said.I fit straight into the team. I think Im pretty comfortable in and around the boys in midfield.Weve got some fantastic talent this year.Its a great club to be at. The facilities, the professionalism of the club, from the staff in the office to the staff out on the field - its one big family, and thats what I love about it.A good A-League season could also revive Brattans Socceroos hopes.Ange Postecoglou picked Brattan in his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Bangladesh and Tajikistan last year.While Brattan didnt play a minute, he clearly left an impression.Tim Cahill, who is now his Melbourne City teammate, has compared Brattans passing style and control to that of Mark Bresicano.You guys might think thats a big comment. But I think give it some time and this kid will be making some noises, Cahill said at the time.City hosts Western Sydney in their FFA Cup quarter-final on Wednesday night at AAMI Park. ' ' '