My Dive into the Jacob Fearnley Ranking Thing
Alright, so I decided to look into this thing people sometimes mention – the Jacob Fearnley ranking. Heard the name floating around and thought, okay, what’s the practical side? How do you actually do it? I like getting my hands dirty with stuff, you know, not just reading about theories.
First thing I did was just try to find some basic info. Spent a bit of time searching around. Honestly? It wasn’t straightforward. Lots of mentions of the name, Jacob Fearnley, sure, seems like a real person involved in maybe sports or analysis, something like that. But a specific, defined ‘ranking’ method named after him? That was harder to pin down. Not like finding instructions for PageRank or Elo ratings, nothing that clear.
So, I thought, maybe it’s not a formal system. Maybe it’s more about his approach? I decided to try and replicate what I imagined it might be, based on the context I saw his name in. Seemed related to evaluating players or teams, maybe based on recent performance and potential?
Here’s what I tried:
- I grabbed some data – let’s say, stats for a few players in a fantasy league I’m in.
- I listed out criteria I thought seemed important: recent scores, consistency, maybe an ‘eye test’ factor (yeah, super subjective, I know).
- Then I tried assigning points. This is where it got fuzzy. How much weight for consistency versus a single great game? I just went with my gut feeling mostly.
- I fiddled with the numbers for a while. Moved players up and down the list. Changed the weights.
My process was pretty messy. I put everything into a simple sheet. Added columns for my different factors. Then a total score column. It looked organized, but the logic behind the scores? Mostly just me guessing. I spent a good hour or two just tweaking values, trying to make the ranking ‘feel’ right based on who I thought was actually better.
After all that, I looked at my final list. Did it give me some amazing insight? Honestly, not really. It sort of confirmed my existing biases about the players. The players I already liked ended up near the top. The ones I was unsure about stayed in the middle. It didn’t feel like a robust system revealed anything new.
My conclusion? Either the ‘Jacob Fearnley ranking’ is a very specific, niche method I couldn’t find the details for, or it’s more of an informal term people use, maybe referring to his personal opinions or a general approach he takes rather than a replicable algorithm. Trying to turn it into a concrete step-by-step process was mostly an exercise in making up my own rules.
It was an interesting way to spend an afternoon, I guess. Made me think about how we rank things. But did I end up with a clear ‘Jacob Fearnley ranking’ tool? Nope. Just my own cobbled-together list based on vague ideas. Maybe someone else has had better luck actually finding and using a defined method from him.
