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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 285355"><p><em>"I have read plenty of analysis concluding having a bye week is no significant advantage. Perhaps ACC schedulers lean that way."</em></p><p></p><p>I am not sure the studies I've seen (including that one) are doing their research the right way. Did you see my posts on another thread about this? I went back the last 5 years, and when Tech had a bye week in ACC play but the other team didn't (3 times), we went 3-0. We went 13-8 in the other ACC games in those 3 years otherwise. (ie, we were 16-8 overall those 3 years in ACC play) That is an undeniable difference, 3-0 versus 13-8.</p><p></p><p>I also went back and looked at how many times our ACC opponent had a bye week before playing us when we didn't. There were 7 of those. (So already I hope you see the trend, 7 versus 3. Also there were a few times where we both had a bye week.) We went 3-4 those 7 games. Those 7 games were exclusively in 2016, 2014, 2013, and 2012. Our record in ACC play outside of those 7 games was 17-8. Again, a significant difference - our winning percentage was 58% higher (0.680 versus 0.428).</p><p></p><p>I'm not going to spend hours digging into those other studies further to try and unravel what they may have missed or erred on. All I care right now is the inequity for Tech. And the historical numbers are way beyond undeniable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 285355"] [I]"I have read plenty of analysis concluding having a bye week is no significant advantage. Perhaps ACC schedulers lean that way."[/I] I am not sure the studies I've seen (including that one) are doing their research the right way. Did you see my posts on another thread about this? I went back the last 5 years, and when Tech had a bye week in ACC play but the other team didn't (3 times), we went 3-0. We went 13-8 in the other ACC games in those 3 years otherwise. (ie, we were 16-8 overall those 3 years in ACC play) That is an undeniable difference, 3-0 versus 13-8. I also went back and looked at how many times our ACC opponent had a bye week before playing us when we didn't. There were 7 of those. (So already I hope you see the trend, 7 versus 3. Also there were a few times where we both had a bye week.) We went 3-4 those 7 games. Those 7 games were exclusively in 2016, 2014, 2013, and 2012. Our record in ACC play outside of those 7 games was 17-8. Again, a significant difference - our winning percentage was 58% higher (0.680 versus 0.428). I'm not going to spend hours digging into those other studies further to try and unravel what they may have missed or erred on. All I care right now is the inequity for Tech. And the historical numbers are way beyond undeniable. [/QUOTE]
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