Love them or hate them, analytics and stats are the face of the future in most sports, and football keeps its place in line with those at the front. Earlier last month, we broke down the SP+ metric by Bill Connelly on ESPN. Today, we wanted to look at analytics powerhouse OPTA for their predictions heading into next season around the Big 12.
Opta rankings were based on what they call TRACR (Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster). OPTA broke it down simply, like this
"Combines play data from the prior season with adjustments for recruiting class rankings, transfer portal additions, and other offseason roster turnover.