Week 8
I've been doing a series like this over on /r/CFB for 5 years now, started for College Basketball this year. The post attempts to visualize consistency between voters in the AP Poll in a single image. Additionally it sorts each AP voter by similarity to the group. Notably, this is not a measure of how "good" a voter is, just how consistent they are with the group. Especially preseason, having a diversity of opinions and ranking styles is advantageous to having a true consensus poll. Polls tend to coalesce towards each other as the season goes on.
Jerry Carino was the most consistent voter this week, and remains in 2nd on the season behind Terry Toohey. Wayne Epps is still in 3rd.
Jesse Newell was the biggest outlier again this week and on the season. Dave Borges has pulled into 2nd ahead of Luke DeCock in 3rd.
Wilner not having Auburn ranked is one of the biggest WTF things I've seen. We were 18 on his ballot last week, won 2 games, and he drops us out completely. SMH
I missed that and it's frankly astounding. I know that Wilner pursues a different kind of poll than most, but there's no defense to leaving the only undefeated power conference team and a defending Final Four team out of the top 25 altogether. I had them at #1 this week.
He replied to someone on Twitter asking him about it and said, " having a tough time with the schedule and lack of quality wins. this deep in (seven weeks), would be nice to see a little more heft to the resume". That's all fine and dandy to not have them ranked in the top 10 if you think that but to leave them out completely is ridiculous when Auburn's SOS is better than 11 of the teams he ranked.
To be fair, they don't have a single quality loss.
Ah yes, that’s something Kentucky has over Auburn. That Evansville too good
While I agree with your point, power conference shouldn't mean Jack shit at this point of the season
I did rank both San Diego State and Liberty in my top 10 this week. With the vast majority of non-conference slates finished until the tournament, there's a pretty clear pecking order of conferences that isn't going to change much on a relative level. In tranches for this year I would go:
I was suprised to see that Liberty really didn't move in this week's poll. Appreciate you throwing them into the top 10. I would be happy with just breaking the top 25. Two quality neutral site wins this week and really no movement. All I hear is people complaining about their strength of schedule but they have played a ton of road/neutral site games and won two tournaments. I compare that with IU which just jumped them in the poll that has 9 home wins and is 0-1 on the road and got demolished.
Typo corrected
is this the same wilner that votes in the AP in college football? Cuz his polls are awful in that as well
He's one of a few writers in both polls, and he's consistently a contrarian.
How many losses would it take for Newell to unrank Purdue?
It looks like at least 6.
Happy cake day
Thank you!
He’s got Gonzaga at 5 I’m convinced he doesn’t watch college basketball
At this point it looks like he may be doing his rankings based on coin flips
Bless the voters that still have Dayton in the Top 10 even with the loss!! Lol
Did they know we loss?!
Edgar Thompson is a moron
Anybody who has Michigan state ranked over Michigan is a moron
Jack Ebling keeping VT at 23 so that it counts as a loss against a ranked team? I’ll take it.
Baylor, Oregon, Auburn and Memphis above Ohio State seems off to me, but okay Provost-Heron, you do you man
I wanna know what Newell is smoking
Brian Holland with Baylor at #13 under Kentucky hahaha
8 weeks in and nobody can agree where Maryland should be ranked... ranked as high as 6 on one ballot and not even ranked on another
Doug Doughty the goat
I guess that's why there's a whole committee of voters. To average out all the idiots.
Bruce Pascoe #6 SDSU. I like how you think.
What in the fuck is Jesse Newell smoking cause I want some
Big time Sam Blum fan. What a guy.