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.

Sheldon Mickles was the most consistent voter this week. Top 3 of Clayton Collier, Wayne Epps, and Sheldon Mickles remain, with Kevin Brockway and Jerry Carino climbing into 4th and 5th.

Doug Doughty was the biggest outlier again this week. Jesse Newell and Jon Wilner remain the top 2, with Luke DeCock moving up into 3rd ahead of Dave Preston, and Donald Hunt still in 5th.

17 points zoells

Jon Wilner, you beautiful bastard.

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3 points ivoryditty

lmao I love how he has us at 7 and others have us unranked.

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2 points zoells

He has to be ignoring losses almost completely.

Minnesota has some damn good wins. If you look at solely at the strength and number of our wins, we're a top 7 team IMO.

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2 points SkolVikesWorldwide

We’re the fucking ‘96 Bulls at home lol he must be ranking us off of that

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9 points Shrektastic28

I love your series on r/CFB, keep it up!

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6 points bakonydraco

Thanks! Last one on CFB for a while, but we've still got a good bit of CBB season :)

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4 points Shrektastic28

God bless college sports!

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7 points michigan_matt

Joe Buettner putting OSU ahead of us.

😒

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2 points crg2000

Most of his ballot is rather suspect.

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7 points chrispgriffin

all of my homies love edgar thompson

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7 points mnmmatt

David Colninger finally got some sense and ranked us appropriately.

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3 points ImminentReddits

Sam Blum and Scott Wolf now my best friends

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4 points ALStark69

<3 Edger Thompson

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3 points [deleted]

Seth Davis is ALWAYS going to be an outlier for Houston votes.

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2 points frumpybuffalo

12 is an outlier?

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3 points [deleted]

He always seems to be the voter that ranks us the lowest out of all of the voters.

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2 points frumpybuffalo

But he's not this week, and it's still only like 3 lower than the average lol

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2 points drowse

I was just thinking - I'm also curious on the distribution of each team. I would think that teams that have a wider range of ranking means that the voters are having a harder time to determine where they sit in the standings.

I thought of this as I see that Gonzaga and Baylor are very consistently #1 and #2, but you get to Michigan and it looks like they're as high as #4 but as low as #12.

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2 points MusaEnsete

Someone tell Dave Borges that the B1G actually played games last week. His B1G rankings are...interesting.

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1 points crg2000

Wisc at 6 and UM at 12... makes perfect sense.

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