Week 11
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.
Shannon Ryan was the most consistent voter this week. Top 5 remains Clayton Collier, Wayne Epps, Sheldon Mickles, Kevin Brockway, and Jerry Carino.
Stephen Tsai was the biggest outlier this week. Jesse Newell, Jon Wilner, Luke DeCock, Dave Preston, and Doug Doughty remain the top 5.
JACK EBLING RANK DRAKE 14 NOT A COWARD
Dear John Wilner: What?
One of the few voters to have you ahead of Michigan, seems like a win!
I mean it’s not John Feinstein levels of dumbassery so I don’t think we have to cyber bully anyone...for now!
I am curious to know why Scott Wolf (Los Angeles Daily News) votes for Baylor at 1. John Werner (Waco Tribune-Herald) and Sam Blum (Dallas Morning News) seem obvious but Scott Wolf doesn’t.
Scott Wolf is a contrarian. I think there's a decent case for Baylor at #1, and I'm a little surprised not to see more people have them ahead.
Because there's also not a decent case for moving either of them around. Both are effectively doing what the top teams should do.. Win.. And win definitely against the talent they're facing.
If there had a been a bit more hype about Baylor than Gonzaga at the start of the season it would probably be #1 Baylor and #2 Gonzaga every week too for most voters.
Poll Voters should start from scratch each week and not care about what the ordering was the previous week. The AP Poll is far more inertia-bound than it ought to. I did have Gonzaga ahead in my poll this week, but because I think they're a better team right now, not just because I had them ahead last week.
I think you’re on to something but maybe harder this season as teams miss games due to covid stoppages
I'd argue the irregular season gives even more reason to start fresh each week.
Then what do you do with a team that doesn’t play for two weeks?
Evaluate them from their body of work the whole season, just like every other team. Even if 2 adjacent teams don't play between polls, it's still not necessarily the case that they should stay in the same order, because the perception of the teams they've played is going to change from week to week.
Jesse Newell, what’s wrong
Dave Preston can suck my dick putting us at unranked. You can argue we may not be a top 15 or even 20 team, but you're a fucking moron if you think Belmont or St. Bonaventure is better than us.
I do not understand the logic of Jesse Newell
He just copy/pastes KenPom and moves a team around or two.
Such as removing Purdue apparently
For real. RANK VT YOU COWARD!!!
Dick Vitale must be protected
Of course Jesse Newell is the reason Rutgers got a vote