Week 10
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.
Stephen Means was the most consistent voter this week. Top 5 remains Clayton Collier, Wayne Epps, Sheldon Mickles, Kevin Brockway, and Jerry Carino.
Jesse Newell was the biggest outlier again this week. Jesse Newell, Jon Wilner, Luke DeCock, and Dave Preston remain the top 4, with Doug Doughty moving into 5th.
When Jesse Newell didn't rank Illinois last year because he copy+pasted KenPom I thought "no."
When Jesse Newell still ranks Illinois in the top 10 despite home loses to OSU and Maryland because he copy+pastes Kenpom I think "yes."
Our resume is crap so I'm hanging onto hope we can break into the KenPom top 25 so we get a Jesse Newell vote
Maryland would probably beat Gonzaga on the road lol
<3 Edgar Thompson
Counterpoint: <\3 Adam Grosbard
Lol Jesse Newell the Kansas beat writer finally debuted Mizzou in his rankings at #25, and the lone voter, Zach Klein who left the tigers off his rankings went to none other than.... KU. You can’t make this bias up.
I’m honestly super proud of him
Some of these guys rank of analytics which has Mizzou like 30-35 in some cases. I put Mizzou at 10 though. Jesse Newell especially is noteworthy for that.
Mizzou 10, Kansas 18 change my mind
kU will come around. They had a rough stretch there, and played a fantastic Baylor team really close and it got away at the end.
This Mizzou team struggles tremendously from 3 and doesn’t have someone to backup Tilmon when he gets in foul trouble. Realistically we will finish 20-25. The SEC has some teams that are sneaky good (LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Mizzou, even Miss. State, and Arky can get hot and be tough to handle.
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Barttorvik, Bihl, Pugh, and Colley (all have Mizzou in the top 10) must be MU alums eh.
I know this is hard for you and Jesse Newell but Mizzou is a top 25 team.
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The loss to ole miss was bad no doubt about it. Not having Tilmon who is probably our best player (and really only post presence) because of a death in the family for the past two games has really shown how much of an impact he makes. I truly don’t think that we lose either tonight or on Saturday against Arkansas with him in the lineup. I still believe that with Tilmon in the lineup that Mizzou is a top 25 team.
Edit: also are you ashamed to flair up or something?
u/moxthebox looking like Tilmon lost a grandmother prior to the season and just the other day lost his other grandmother. Pretty awful to gloat about a team losing games because of something like that
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We lost those games without Tilmon fair and square no doubt about it. With Tilmon in the lineup we are pretty clearly a different team.
Is that kansas education still holding you back from figuring out how to add a flair?
Crepea and Wilner somehow have Kansas in top 10
Incredible quality losses.
Shoutout to Stephen Tsai having us at #19
Wow the two kU grads have Mizzou NR/25 while having kU 12/18
Newell doesn't count, come on. His rankings are based on totally different things than anyone else's, and Mizzou should be around 25 with his method. I have them 10, I just don't think he counts. :D
It’s okay man. They have football season that they are looking forward to and probably just missed it
Paul Klee is 100% welcome anywhere in Houston once it's safe to do so.
I'm just impressed that he's a dual threat college hoops analyst/Swiss surrealist painter.
Jon Wilmer has us at #10? Lol wtf. I'll take it
Ok Jesse Newell, what’s wrong bud