[2] His Sagarin Ratings have been a regular feature in the USA Today sports section from 1985 to 2023,[2][3] have been used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to help determine the participants in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since 1984,[4] and were part of the college football Bowl Championship Series throughout its history from 1998 to 2014.
For the Predictor system, margin of victory (or defeat) factors in also, but a law of diminishing returns is applied.
This characteristic has the effect of recognizing "comfortable" victories, while limiting the reward for running up the score.
In addition, sports rating systems are generally of great interest to gamblers.
Along with his former MIT classmate Wayne L. Winston, a professor of decision sciences at Indiana University, as of 2004[update], Sagarin advised the Dallas Mavericks about which lineups to use during games and which free agents to sign using a system called Winval.