It’s late on a Thursday night and I have to find something to write about with Flakes.
Well I give a big thank you to CFBNumbers on Twitter.
To look back at the tragedy of the Cornhuskers, we will primarily be using a metric known as “post game win probability” (PGWP). This metric comes from CollegeFootballData.com, and is defined as follows:
“Post game win probability looks at advanced metrics like success rates, PPA, and scoring opportunities and assesses the probability of each team winning should the game be played again with equivalent stats.