Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics presents the Relative Performance
Grading (RPG) system of statistical measures, which ends all arguments
over how good college football teams are relative to one another. Using
grammar school mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Mike
Nemeth exposes the need for, and then invents, a new set of statistical
measures to explain how and why one team wins and another loses a
college football game. The new statistics assign a numerical grade to
the playing performances of both winners and losers, just as a student
receives a numerical grade on a school test. The grades in this RPG
system replace won/lost records and differentiate well-played wins from
ugly wins and well-played losses from ugly losses. RPG accurately ranks
college football teams according to how well they've played the game,
i.e. how good a team they are (and, NOT how good their record appears to
be).