Big 12 Championship Game Projection

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If TT had pulled it off over Baylor:

Oklahoma: 95.3% (85.7% 1st, 9.7% 2nd)
Texas: 55.1% (5.8% 1st, 49.2% 2nd)
Iowa St.: 22.5% (4.6% 1st, 18.0% 2nd)
Texas Tech: 9.4% (0.5% 1st, 9.0% 2nd)
Baylor: 9.0% (1.9% 1st, 7.1% 2nd)
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If refs hadn't stolen TT's win over Baylor:

Oklahoma: 95.3% (85.7% 1st, 9.7% 2nd)
Texas: 55.1% (5.8% 1st, 49.2% 2nd)
Iowa St.: 22.5% (4.6% 1st, 18.0% 2nd)
Texas Tech: 9.4% (0.5% 1st, 9.0% 2nd)
Baylor: 9.0% (1.9% 1st, 7.1% 2nd)

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How would things look had we beat Baylor? Would we be ahead of Texas? Probably can’t model as that would have had a big impact on ratings.
 

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Oklahoma: 93.9% (80.6% 1st, 13.3% 2nd)
Texas: 46.5% (5.6% 1st, 40.9% 2nd)
Iowa St.: 45.7% (11.3% 1st, 34.5% 2nd)
Baylor: 5.1% (1.2% 1st, 3.9% 2nd)


And, dare I ask, what if Tech had beaten Baylor?

The bottom line is that Baylor has to fall apart. And that is quite likely as they head into the tough half of their schedule.
 
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This week is going to be tough. I'm nervous for this game. I think Wells is a heck of a coach and Tech is definitely improving. We need this one. I think if we get by this one, we'll take care of Ok State at home, lose to OU, beat Texas, and beat KU. Flip a coin for Farmagedon. They always play us tough. Gosh, I'd love to go to Arlington this year!
 

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Hey, y'all. I've done this the past two years, and we're far enough into the season that I think it makes sense running the scenarios again.

Basically, this is 100,000 Monte Carlo simulations of the rest of the Big 12 football season in Python, using Ken Massey’s rating system for the odds for every remaining game.

Here are the chances for each team to make the Big 12 Championship Game. The parenthetical is their regular-season chances of finishing 1st and 2nd.

Oklahoma: 87.7% (61.6% 1st, 26.1% 2nd)
Texas: 72.8% (30.6% 1st, 42.2% 2nd)
Baylor: 17.1% (4.2% 1st, 12.9% 2nd)
Iowa St.: 6.9% (1.4% 1st, 5.6% 2nd)
Oklahoma St.: 5.1% (0.8% 1st, 4.3% 2nd)
Texas Tech: 4.1% (0.4% 1st, 3.8% 2nd)
TCU: 3.7% (0.6% 1st, 3.0% 2nd)
West Virginia: 2.1% (0.3% 1st, 1.8% 2nd)
Kansas St.: 0.4% (0.1% 1st, 0.3% 2nd)
Kansas: c'mon

And here are the Championship Game matchups that have at least a 1% chance of happening:

Oklahoma/Texas: 61.7%
Baylor/Oklahoma: 11.8%
Iowa St./Oklahoma: 4.8%
Baylor/Texas: 4.4%
Oklahoma/Texas Tech: 3.3%
Oklahoma St./Texas: 2.7%
Oklahoma/TCU: 2.6%
Oklahoma/Oklahoma St.: 2.1%
Iowa St./Texas: 1.6%
Oklahoma/West Virginia: 1.1%

(Slight boring caveat: The program only goes through the first two tiebreakers, since the third tiebreaker involves points and would be a pain in the butt to model. That said, the first two tiebreakers -- and situations with no tiebreaker necessary -- covered 99.6% of the simulations, so the odds wouldn’t change much.)

And finally, here’s Iowa State’s chances of ending up at any given record and their chances of making the championship game at that record:

ISU record chances:
3-9: 0.3%
4-8: 3.9%
5-7: 16.0%
6-6: 30.0%
7-5: 29.7%
8-4: 15.8%
9-3: 4.0%
10-2: 0.4%

ISU odds of championship game at record:
7-5: 0.4%
8-4: 19.9%
9-3: 82.8%
10-2: 100.0%

Anyone want the odds for different scenarios, just ask -- they're easy to do.
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After this week's games:

Oklahoma: 93.6% (75.7% 1st, 17.9% 2nd)
Baylor: 58.8% (16.9% 1st, 41.9% 2nd)
Texas: 27.3% (2.5% 1st, 24.8% 2nd)
Iowa St.: 18.8% (4.7% 1st, 14.1% 2nd)
TCU: 1.0% (0.1% 1st, 0.8% 2nd)
Kansas St.: 0.3% (0.0% 1st, 0.3% 2nd)
Oklahoma St.: 0.1% (0.0% 1st, 0.1% 2nd)
Kansas, TT, WV: nope

Most likely title games:
Baylor/Oklahoma: 53.0%
Oklahoma/Texas: 24.8%
Iowa St./Oklahoma: 14.8%
Baylor/Iowa St.: 3.5%
Baylor/Texas: 2.1%

ISU record chances:
5-7: 0.3%
6-6: 5.2%
7-5: 22.8%
8-4: 40.0%
9-3: 27.1%
10-2: 4.4%

ISU odds of championship game at record:
7-5: 0.1%
8-4: 5.6%
9-3: 44.8%
10-2: 97.7%

I'm making a variation of my program that tells you what the most important games left are for ISU — both games ISU is playing and others. We'll see if I can get it running before this Saturday.
 

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I'm making a variation of my program that tells you what the most important games left are for ISU — both games ISU is playing and others. We'll see if I can get it running before this Saturday.
Thanks for running this. Without being a computer, it seems to me that we have to win them all. But if we lose one, it absolutely cannot be to Texas.

Even if we lose one to Oklahoma and run the table otherwise, we still need Baylor to lose twice, possibly three times.
 

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Thanks for running this. Without being a computer, it seems to me that we have to win them all. But if we lose one, it absolutely cannot be to Texas.

Even if we lose one to Oklahoma and run the table otherwise, we still need Baylor to lose twice, possibly three times.

I'd say we can probably only afford a loss to OU the rest of the way, and then need help from Baylor in losing some games, because I don't see OU not finishing 1st.
 

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I'm surprised at the disparity in the chances of finishing 8-4 vs 9-3.
 

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I'd say we can probably only afford a loss to OU the rest of the way, and then need help from Baylor in losing some games, because I don't see OU not finishing 1st.

Texas is a must win at this point (insert Captain Obvious gif) assuming we don't win in Norman.

Need Baylor to lose to both OU and Texas and drop one they don't expect. They've got WV at home, @ TCU, @ Kansas. Get it done Patterson!
 
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Basically, other than winning out, we're going to need some help to make it.

Last week's BU-Tech blunder and KU with the prevent a win defense at the end of the Texas game were both HUGE in keeping us out of the mix.
 

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Basically, other than winning out, we're going to need some help to make it.

Last week's BU-Tech blunder and KU with the prevent a win defense at the end of the Texas game were both HUGE in keeping us out of the mix.

Depending on the tie breakers it's wait and see on if the Texas win hurts or helps us.
 

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