I was perusing some head to head results and I came across Ohio State and Indiana. On the page it states that Ohio State has a win streak of only 14 games. Ohio State has a win streak of 29 games (30 if you count the vacated 2010 game). Your site only shows the number of wins since the vacated game, which is incorrect. The game was vacated which means it essentially never happened, not forfeited. The streaks should reflect all wins in a row (excluding the vacated ones). I checked some other win streaks of teams with vacated wins and the same mistake was made (Notre Dame Boston College, etc).
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Hey Ralph - thanks for jumping in! The NCAA clarified this in 2020, and what Winsipedia has is correct
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Thank you for the information. I was not aware of the NCAA’s judgment on this topic in 2020. I feel it is an illogical position that the NCAA takes, but oh well. A vacated win is a game that the record books claim didn’t happen for team A, and remains a loss for team B, but somehow that ends the length of a streak between two teams.
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I mean, they cant go back retroactively and give the other team a win
Actually, they can. Declare a Forfeit which is different from a Vacancy (see attached attached screenshot of NCAA policy).
I find the NCAA clarification mentioned above very strange. In the example above, Indiana record shows 30 games losing streak (there is no interruption), but Ohio State, based on the clarification, has only 14 games winning streak.
I agree that sites should follow the guidelines. I wish that they would also give an option to ignore vacancies. Forfeits are not an issue in this regard since each game has a winner and a loser. The problem I have with vacancies is that we end up with an unequal number of wins and loses.
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Forfeits and vacancies are generally super confusing. You can also get into situations where each organization has a different official record. Meaning the school, conference, and NCAA could all have ruled a specific vacancy differently resulting in conflicting records. A lot of which is just hubris. Similar to national and conference championships.
This makes standardizing data incredibly tedious and difficult to display. There are hundreds of edge cases. And a ton of which are completely unknown or unverifiable.
Individual people also have their own idea of what a vacancy should be in terms of total records. Winsipedia gets called out often like in the OP for having incorrect representation (not to say its perfect) of streaks and records because of someone either not understanding or refusing to understand vancancies.