System, United States of America college football Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings, United States of America college basketball Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), United States of America NCAA basketball, baseball, softball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and volleyball Smithman Qualitative Index, United States of America soccer - obsolete TrueSkill, a Bayesian ranking system inspired by the Glicko rating system Bowl Championship Series computer rating systems In collegiate American football, the following people's systems were used to choose teams to play in the national championship game. Anderson & Hester / Seattle Times Richard Billingsley Wes Colley / Atlanta Journal-Constitution Richard Dunkel Kenneth Massey Herman Matthews / Scripps Howard New York Times David Rothman Jeff Sagarin / USA Today Peter Wolfe Further reading Bibliographies Popular press Wayne Winston is a professor of decision sciences at Indiana University and was a classmate of Jeff Sagarin at MIT. He published several editions of a text on the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software that includes material on ranking sports teams, as well as a book focused directly on this topic. He and Sagarin created rating systems together. Academic work Much of this information is available at available at References Sports records and statistics Sports terminology Sports science Rating system Baseball statistics Basketball statistics Analytics American football records and statistics