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re: Ole Miss SHOULD be over BAMA.. But OK over LSU?
Posted on 10/29/14 at 12:01 am to Meldedee
Posted on 10/29/14 at 12:01 am to Meldedee
I'll try to play devil's advocate.
If I'm a lazy voter, I don't have time to compare victories. It's way easier to just compare the losses, there's fewer of them.
We all know how LSU's losses went down. Look at the box scores of the Sooners losses:
1 2 3 4 Total
OU 14 10 7 2 33
TCU 14 10 7 6 37
1 2 3 4 Total
KSt 7 14 10 0 31
OU 7 10 7 6 30
Choose either one, and a lot of reasonable, but lazy, voters might say one them sort of equates to the Miss St loss. Compare either one to the Auburn loss. OU just doesn't have that bad of a loss, to date.
Hence, the over-simplified lazy voter process is: rank teams you don't care about by number of losses. The tiebreaker for equal number of losses is: bad losses vs respectable losses.
I want to emphasize that this in not my process, but how I think a lazy (or strapped-for-time or just plain old stupid) person might do it.
If I'm a lazy voter, I don't have time to compare victories. It's way easier to just compare the losses, there's fewer of them.
We all know how LSU's losses went down. Look at the box scores of the Sooners losses:
1 2 3 4 Total
OU 14 10 7 2 33
TCU 14 10 7 6 37
1 2 3 4 Total
KSt 7 14 10 0 31
OU 7 10 7 6 30
Choose either one, and a lot of reasonable, but lazy, voters might say one them sort of equates to the Miss St loss. Compare either one to the Auburn loss. OU just doesn't have that bad of a loss, to date.
Hence, the over-simplified lazy voter process is: rank teams you don't care about by number of losses. The tiebreaker for equal number of losses is: bad losses vs respectable losses.
I want to emphasize that this in not my process, but how I think a lazy (or strapped-for-time or just plain old stupid) person might do it.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 12:38 am to Woodreaux
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how I think a lazy (or strapped-for-time or just plain old stupid) person might do it.
I have to say I'm a little disappointed. I understand if a pollster does something like that, but a committee of 13 people that are supposed to debate everything and follow a strict process of getting rankings using objective standards shouldn't be that way.
I can only hope that maybe they rushed it after #5 or #6.
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