QPI Dashboard

Let's evaluate college football wins with some fairness, not by using an arbitrary top-25 line of demarcation that can define a season. Losses should be survivable, and wins should age in real time.

Welcome to the landing page for the TDRD’s Quad-Point Index, or QPI. QPI’s goal is to evaluate a given college football’s resume based on two criteria: where the game took place, and how good the opponent was. That’s it.

QPI uses this chart to determine the “quad” a game falls into, and this means that games can fall into different quads for both teams. For example, last year, NIU would have been a Quad 4 opponent for Notre Dame, but Notre Dame would have been a Quad 1 opponent for NIU.

QPI’s assessment of games is “floating,” meaning a Quad 1 win isn’t locked into place and can age. This means that LSU’s win over Clemson has become less meaningful and has resulted in fewer points for LSU over time.

QPI, and I cannot stress this enough, is not a power rating, nor is it intended to have any predictive value. Its only function is to evaluate a team’s resume up to and no further than today.

For a longer explanation of how QPI works, see the previous article I wrote about it.