Tom Treloar Is Studying Sports Ranking Models

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

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4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Guests: Tom Treloar, Lance Morrow, & John Grant

Host Scot Bertram talks with Tom Treloar, Chairman and Professor of Mathematics at Hillsdale College, about his extensive research into models for ranking sports teams. American essayist Lance Morrow tells us about his recent book The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism. And John Grant, Associate Professor and Chairman of Politics at Hillsdale, returns to wrap up his series on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, this time focusing on his writings, including In the First Circle and The Gulag Archipelago.

Thomas Treloar at 00:55
Lance Morrow at 18:55
John Grant at 31:38

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1:20.6	The most important thing is not just how do they end the season, like what's their record at the end of the season, but how did they get there?
1:26.6	Like which teams did they ultimately play? Who did they ultimately win against?
1:31.3	Through this process, you can get to not just what happened in the season, but how did they get there?
1:36.7	This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Tom Treloor, chairman and professor of mathematics here at Hillsdale College.
1:43.8	And today we'll talk in-depth
1:45.2	about his extensive research into the proper ranking of sports teams. Tom, thanks so much for
1:51.0	joining us. Thanks for having me. Discussing today, it's the right time of the year,
1:55.0	talk about your work in mathematical models ranking college, well, ranking any sports teams really, I suppose,
2:03.4	but we really think about this in terms of college football, college basketball, usually.
2:08.0	Take us through the history of rankings a little bit.
2:11.5	We've long had these sort of human eye test rankings and more recently sort of data oriented approaches.
2:18.8	How does that sort of take place?
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