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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Tell ya what, let's make that happen.
Mike/Justin, any chance you could contact the folks you had doing the voting in 2011 and collect lists from them? (or pass the list my way and I'll do it)
I'll have the TwentyFour guys work up a FiM style point list, an OPR, and a CCWM list. (Yes Drost, that means you too)
Let's see how they all come out, I'm curious.
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The reason why we stopped this was because the "coaches" simply stopped participating. By week 3 we were getting nearly 100 voters for the public poll and 3 -5 for the "coaches" poll. We started with over a dozen coaches. Which one was a better representation of the Top 25 teams according to the FIRST community? The public poll. Simple as that. And that's the model we're going to continue using.
I'm fine with people not taking the rankings seriously. Mike already stated the reason why we do the show is to bring the FIRST community together every week throughout the competition season. The rankings are secondary and merely give us a format for the show.
The BCS in college football is a computer generated model taking into account a number of factors. There are always people who complain about it's inaccuracies. People complain about the coaches poll in college sports. People complain about the media poll in college sports.
Anytime you try and "rank" anything, people will complain and try to knock it's credibility just because they have a different opinion. It is IMPOSSIBLE to rank over 2000 teams with a high degree of accuracy. That's why we have always claimed it was for fun and not to take it too seriously. All we ask is that you vote. If you don't want to vote that's fine, we'll have fun doing the show with or without you.