An interesting exercise and food for thought about how rankings are done

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Oct 17, 2024
12:53:47pm

MarylandFan Intervention Needed

An interesting exercise and food for thought about how rankings are done

Especially how preseason rankings so heavily weight every single poll that follows.

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MarylandFan

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Did I fix the AP top 25? Hear me out. HEAR ME OUT.

12:45pm

Nah, Texas is pretty clearly the best team in the country right now

Skeptical Optimist

12:47pm

Yes, I agree - but that's not ENTIRELY what this measures. It actually

12:52pm

I have learned from years on CB that anytime anyone says "hear me out", I know

LifeLongLakerFan

12:49pm

No. You made it worse.

byubyu

12:50pm

An interesting exercise and food for thought about how rankings are done

MarylandFan

12:53pm

The problem is it treats a win over Georgia the same as a win over Houston

goidcougs

12:55pm

Or a win over Boise st the same as a win over New Mexico St

goidcougs

12:57pm

Yeah, it does, as one metric. Sorry I didn't go into the full thing.

1:00pm

By the way, this is the top 25 as a Colley Ranking with the top 3 tiers only:

2:32pm

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