Week 8
I've been doing a series like this over on /r/CFB for 6 years now, started for College Basketball last 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.
Marcus Fuller was the most consistent voter this week. Top 3 of Clayton Collier, Wayne Epps, and Sheldon Mickles remain, with Matt Murschel and Kevin Brockway climbing into 4th and 5th.
Jesse Newell was the biggest outlier again this week. Top 5 of Jesse Newell, Jon Wilner, Dave Preston, Luke DeCock, and Donald Hunt remain unchanged.
I think me and Doug Doughty would get along well.
No, as a UVA fan nobody gets along with Doug, he’s human excrement. He asked our players after they lost to UMBC if they were “aware” that a 16 had never beaten a 1.
Jesse Newell stays absolutely MAD, also Jon Wilner we are not better than Baylor sir
I'm pretty sure Newell selects his 4-25 at complete random
He seems to think the SEC is much better than it is. Or maybe he’s somehow right and we’re the crazy people
You might want to check where he has KU ranked before claiming bias
He can rank his own team low and also stay absolutely mad, they're not mutually exclusive
Doesn’t he usually rank KU way too high? This is new for him lol
No, he’s had them ranked the lowest out of all pollsters pretty much all year.
He ranks by analytics (combo of kenpom, Torvik, etc). Every week for the last couple of years some team that doesn’t pay attention will get upset and say he’s super biased. In reality, his polls are the least biased out of anyone, it’s strictly numbers.
This. Every week this post comes out and every week it’s the same comments.
My guess is that he's embarrassed at KU getting blown out and is reacting by ranking them way too low
No one claimed bias?
GOD DAMMIT SCOTT WOLF STOP RANKING BAYLOR OVER GONZAGA YOURE RUINING THE PERFECTNESS
ALSO JON WILNER RANK BAYLOR SECOND
I NEED A CLEAN GONZAGA FIRST AND BAYLOR SECOND
I don’t think it’s that ridiculous to have Baylor ranked ahead of Gonzaga. Gonzaga definitely has the better resume and more quality wins, but Baylor is an incredible team who has also blown out every team they’ve played. And if you value them being in a better conference and theoretically think they’re more talented if they played, which they really should have, fuck you COVID for robbing us of that, then you’re justified in having Baylor higher. I think Baylor has an advantage come tourney time by being more battle tested where Gonzaga’s schedule was obviously front loaded.
No actually the second one can stay
Your OCD is showing
What did we do to piss off David Cloninger? Lol
I can’t believe Jon Wilner is the smartest man in the world
A true visionary
No. 14 ranked Drake, Jack Ebling is confirmed not a coward.
Yo, I kinda like this Jesse Newell guy!
“Zach Klein” has Duke ranked 11th.
Boise’s voter is not a fan of Boise State. 11-1 and he don’t care.