![]() ![]() S O S = 2 ( O R ) + ( O O R ) 3 īefore the 2004 season, in the American college football Bowl Championship Series (BCS) the SOS was calculated as shown at right, where OR is the opponents' record, while OOR is the opponents' opponents record. For example, opponents of the 2016 New England Patriots had a combined record of 111–142–3 (a win percentage of 0.439, the SOS), and Patriots' wins came against teams with a combined record of 93–129–2 (a win percentage of 0.420, the SOV). In the National Football League (NFL), the strength of schedule (SOS) is the combined record of all teams in a schedule, and the strength of victory (SOV) is the combined record of all teams that were beaten in that schedule. Such calculations are the basis of many of the various tie-breaking systems used in Swiss-system tournaments in chess and other tabletop games. ![]() The strength of schedule can be calculated in many ways. This is especially important if teams in a league do not play each other the same number of times. In sports, strength of schedule ( SOS) refers to the difficulty or ease of a team's/person's opponent as compared to other teams/persons. ![]()
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