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Hi y'all - aggypedia Admin here!

Given the discussion on the last couple of pages, it really seems like there should be an aggypedia entry for one Mr. DFig.

Does anyone want to step up and be either a "Guest" or a "Ghost" (if you want to preserve identity) author for a section on his rantings and maybe some of the better photos/memes?

If so - ping me here!

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I just got out of a meeting where aggy law school was brought up and I had no idea they were ranked as the 22nd best law school in the country by US News. They purchased Texas Wesleyan like 10 years ago and that school was barely relevant. I've long been skeptical of US News with lots of schools being caught manipulaing the data and I have zero doubt whatsoever that aggy manipulated the shit out of those rankings. You don't go from marginally relevant to top 25 in ten years through legitimate means. I wish Randy Duke was still active to see if he could dig into it and figure out how they pulled off that nonsense. I have a personal interest in establishing that their claim is horseshit. 

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23 hours ago, coachherman'sgrill said:

https://gigemgazette.com/texas-a-m-s-decision-on-new-tradition-may-confuse-some-fans-but-there-s-a-reason

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They're 9-9 vs Miss State, GRAHAM!!!!!!!!

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This is because aggy continues to bring horrible TV numbers year after year.  I saw a stat that detailed every SEC-rights game last year for us and for aggy.  Aggy's viewership was 15% what ours was.  The SEC has made it clear aggy isn't getting any of the premium spots because it is hurting the entire conference's marketability for our next TV deal.

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7 minutes ago, aggypedia said:

Hi y'all - aggypedia Admin here!

Given the discussion on the last couple of pages, it really seems like there should be an aggypedia entry for one Mr. DFig.

Does anyone want to step up and be either a "Guest" or a "Ghost" (if you want to preserve identity) author for a section on his rantings and maybe some of the better photos/memes?

If so - ping me here!

That sad, little man will wear his aggypedia entry like some cultish badge of honor.

Best to ignore that tool. He doesn't deserve the notoriety. 

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3 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I just got out of a meeting where aggy law school was brought up and I had no idea they were ranked as the 22nd best law school in the country by US News. They purchased Texas Wesleyan like 10 years ago and that school was barely relevant. I've long been skeptical of US News with lots of schools being caught manipulaing the data and I have zero doubt whatsoever that aggy manipulated the shit out of those rankings. You don't go from marginally relevant to top 25 in ten years through legitimate means. I wish Randy Duke was still active to see if he could dig into it and figure out how they pulled off that nonsense. I have a personal interest in establishing that their claim is horseshit. 

US News law school rankings are effectively based on the average LSAT of entering 1Ls.  They have other criteria.  But LSAT scores drive it all.  So what happened is the A&M name got them an influx of new applicants.  And they were able to be more selective.  The easiest way to manipulate the rankings, and I assume they do this, is to take smaller incoming 1L classes of 1Ls with high LSAT scores and a shitload of transfers (which do not count into LSAT metric).  Some schools are notorious for doing this -- NYU is one.

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9 minutes ago, aggypedia said:

Hi y'all - aggypedia Admin here!

Given the discussion on the last couple of pages, it really seems like there should be an aggypedia entry for one Mr. DFig.

Does anyone want to step up and be either a "Guest" or a "Ghost" (if you want to preserve identity) author for a section on his rantings and maybe some of the better photos/memes?

If so - ping me here!

dfigs is a counterfeit ag like the fence guy

spend your energy creating an entry on texags PPP loans that have never been paid back

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2 hours ago, nnm said:

In HS, NNM Jr played WR and DB. Rarely left the field. He was listed at 6’1”, 210. He was 5’10” (11”, maybe), 170. 

Yeah my eyeball vs OL had him about 5'10- 5'11.. 165-170 lbs

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

US News law school rankings are effectively based on the average LSAT of entering 1Ls.  They have other criteria.  But LSAT scores drive it all.  So what happened is the A&M name got them an influx of new applicants.  And they were able to be more selective.  The easiest way to manipulate the rankings, and I assume they do this, is to take smaller incoming 1L classes of 1Ls with high LSAT scores and a shitload of transfers (which do not count into LSAT metric).  Some schools are notorious for doing this -- NYU is one.

Not entirely. They actually have a number of different metrics. I've long suspected that aggy games the system because any practicing lawyer with an aggy undergrad degree is going to artificially inflate aggy's law school ranking. But I do agree that the name led to an influx of better applicatns. 

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An explanation of the pie graph above. 

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While U.S. News does tell us each of the metrics it factors into the rankings and the precise weights they are given, it does not publish precisely how all of these metrics are calculated. It is impossible to know their exact methods for certain metrics, and thus impossible to replicate with perfect accuracy. For example, it appears that some data is rounded, but U.S. News does not disclose how it rounds that data. Another issue preventing perfect accuracy is job category weights. U.S. News does not disclose how much weight most job types are assigned (e.g., how much is a full-time, short-term, professional position worth versus a full-time, long-term, JD-advantage position?). This is particularly problematic for schools that tend to have more of the non-full credit job outcomes. Further, U.S. News does not disclose the source of test-score percentiles it uses. All these combine to make a perfect replication quite difficult. 

However, the basic methodology U.S. News uses is not, ultimately, that complicated. Certain things are convoluted—the way that they transform certain data, the different weights assigned to job categories, etc.—but U.S. News does not take active measures to prevent people from replicating their methods (at least, not beyond declining to disclose certain parts of those methods), and even for those things they don’t disclose, they generally provide enough “hints” to allow reasonably accurate replication.

The Unintuitive Weighting System

One of the easiest mistakes to make in understanding the U.S. News law school rankings has to do with the pie chart above. The weighting of the various metrics, as presented by U.S. News, is deceptive due to the way they standardize and scale the data. Taken literally, one might assume that a raw score would reflect that each piece of data—Median LSAT, Library Resources, Peer Assessment, etc.—contributes its respective percentage to a given school’s raw score, similar to how one might calculate an overall grade for a course from several assignments with different weights. That is not the case, and it is a common and key misunderstanding. 

How, then, is the score calculated? Within each metric, U.S. News scales and standardizes scores (Z-scores), and then weighs the resulting score by that factor’s respective assigned weight. Unlike in our example of finding a grade for a course from a number of assignments, in the U.S. News formula, it is quite possible to achieve “grades” above 100% or below 0% for each given factor. In fact, this is quite common. This distorts the expected “weight” of each factor, in many cases quite drastically. The Librarian to Student Ratio is an example of this—despite the fact that it only makes up 2% of the U.S. News formula, Yale Law School overperforms so much in this metric relative to other schools that, in the most recent rankings edition, it was responsible for its number one position.

Still doesn't explain how they've leapfrogged a bunch of very strong, well-established, regional schools with good reputations. A non-exhaustive list:

USC 

Wake Forest

Boston College

Emory

W&L

Fordham

Wisconsin 

Georgia

 

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