Scott Jedlicka distributes notes and publishes report cards, so in some respects, the parameters of his paintings have not replaced much due to the end of the Washington state semester last spring.
Certainly, Jedlicka’s audience has expanded.
An assistant professor in WSU’s Sport Management program, Jedlicka has devoted a large chunk of his time in quarantine to the development and maintenance of a website, covidcfb.com, that tracks and analyzes coronavirus data in every region of the country where the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision is played.
The Jedlicka website is a convenient tool for school football fans who want to see how the coronavirus epidemic has affected their school, plus the deception it encompasses, and provide knowledge that may also be the best theoretical attendance conference for friends or NCAA resolution creators if it is safe. play football. season in 2020.
“To be in line with schooling and be a user able to talk about the game from a school standpoint,” Jedlicka said, “I think it will be too wise a resource for the public, which callers can also use to make a decision in this situation.
In about two months, the website was seen about 5,000 times, or a hundred times at noon, and Jedlicka, without revealing the details, said he was contacted through a Power Five conference official who asked him about the facts he was collecting.
“I don’t have much concept (following the website),” Jedlicka said, “but I’ve had those interactions.”
Jedlicka draws on three categories to generate grades for every FBS and FCS school in America, sorting them by conference. He relies on COVID-19-related data from USAFacts, The COVID Tracking Project and other sources to track three categories: average daily growth rate of cases in the past 14 days, change in percentage of statewide positive tests in the past 14 days and COVID-19 hospitalizations as percentage of hospital capacity.
Points are awarded accordingly, an expansion rate of less than 0.5% of the time would justify four points, such as an excess, and then add to the alphabetical scores. On Monday afternoon, Jedlicka’s newsletter reflected the facts collected until 1 July nine and reaffirmed the most a position on the college football landscape knew regarding the COVID-1 pandemic.
In the Pacific Conference-12, only 3 systems achieve a “C” or more, according to Jedlicka data. WSU has remained with a “D” score due to the launch of the Jedlicka website. The cougars in short climbed a “C” beyond what it was due last week, but fell again on Saturday. Colorado is the only member of the Pac-12 with a “B”, while the state of Oregon and Washington registered with a “C” on Monday.
The four group play stations at the Southeast Conference reach a “C” and nine of them reach an “F”, while 8 of the 10 Big-12 teams achieve a “D” and an “F”. The Big Ten in the top productive form with 12 of the four group play stations that receive an ‘A’ and a ‘B’ and no person is worse than ‘C’, while the Atlantic Coast Conference has perhaplaystation the biggest gap with two group stations to a ‘A’, 8 with a ‘C’ and four with a ‘F’
Aleven, although The Pac-12 has announced that it will only play one conference program this fall, Jedlicka’s knowledge suggests that this does not necessarily provide a safer solution. The Cougars are expected to stumble in Colorado and Oregon, but also in Stanford and UCLA, either in what would be considered as COVID-19 sensitive areas.
“If you play games, I think it’s also something like restricting travel in the state or in the region,” Jedlicka said. “Just because … when you have a stage like the only one you have in Arizona right now, for example, it’s really hard to argue that we’re looking to hang over a hundred other Americans to play a football game.” If things go, I can see that we might possibly be doing some kind of scenario where we (WSU) bet on UW and Oregon schools. I don’t know, it’s maximum productive speculation right now.”
In hand, Jedlicka stated that conference plans only allow consistency with respect to COVID-1 tests and other security protocols.
“We can all agree to abide by those explicit verification schedules and explicit quarantine rules, etc.,” Jedlicka said. “What’s harder to interpret once you talk about WSU as opposed to Idaho, WSU as opposed to Boise State or something.”
Aleven, although smaller spaces like Whitguy and Latah County are projecting only 32 new times over the next four days, their expansion rate has increased significantly, through 2.38%, according to the website. East Washington has a “D” on the Jedlicka scale, while Idaho has recently been downgraded to an “F.” Jedlicka has scorned the knowledge analysis of the five FCS meetings that reveled in the fall sports cancelled over the past 10 days: the Colonial Athletic Association, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Ivy League, Southeastern Athletic Conference and Patinsurrection League.
Jedlicka found an obstacle that led him to change the shape of the scoring angles used in covidcfb.com. Until recently, it used state-by-state hospital capacity as the third criterion, a figure that can be easily obtained on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. However, beginning Wednesday’s most violent Wednesday, Donald Trump’s administration ordered U.S. hospitals. Have the capatown figures reported to the Department of Health and Services of Huguy (HHS), which to the CDC, so they will not be available to the public.
“It’s frustrating, to mention the least; For the purposes of this website, estimating the current capacity of the hospital becomes a more challenging (but not impossible) burden. It’s also another exaggerated tactic that will influence the game in an unforeseen and diverse way.” Jedlicka wrote in a blog post on the site.
Later, he explains his counter-sensitive method, and writes that “the current metric used for report cards is only” current hospitalizations “divided through the” general variety of legal hospital beds “for any of the conditions (if conditions were greater when reporting the use of applicable COVID care, I would be tempted to exploit those numbers instead). As you can see on the home page, I set the score for this statistic in 5% increments. “
Jedlicka is his seventh year at WSU.
Not unlike other professors and university administrators, Jedlicka fears the ramifications of a large coronavirus outbreak in a small, isolated community such as Pullman, where spreading potential is high and hospital capacity is low.