Week 12

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.

Bennett Conlin of The Daily Progress has replaced Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times as Virginia's beat writer representative in the AP Poll. Stephen Tsai sat out this week, but should be back next week, so there were 63 votes this week. 3 voters ranked St. John's for the first time in a while, which perhaps the AP site isn't fully equipped to handle yet.

Ken Weinman was the most consistent voter this week. New voter Bennett Conlin now has the most consistent average this season, but it's not a perfect comparison since voters tend to converge as the season goes on. He was #10 this week. The previous top 4 of Clayton Collier, Wayne Epps, Sheldon Mickles, and Kevin Brockway are now #2-5

Jesse Newell was the biggest outlier this week. Jesse Newell, Jon Wilner, Luke DeCock, and Dave Preston remain the top 4. Doug Doughty was #5, but has left the poll, and so Donald Hunt is now #5.