More Regionals = Higher Ranking?

[Greg Leighton]

Originally Posted by MaxMax161

I was thinking about the ranking sites like the top 25 and OPR and how going to more then one regional, or appearing in the later regionals would effect a team's ranking. Do you guys think that good teams might fall off the radar, especially of the popular vote, if they don't play as much? Conversely do you think that teams who are constantly in the public eye would tend to get a higher vote then if they were not?

Sure, I see the top 25 as a mixture between a college sports ranking system and this years NBA allstar voting system. If someone is unfamiliar with the two basically what happened this years allstar voting was simply the fans got to vote, therefore there was a mix of people voting based on who deserved to be in the allstar game and a mix of people voting simply based on their favorite player. So just like Yao Ming was voted into the allstar game without actually playing as well as some other players I imagine the same thing can happen here. On the flip side, in college sports a team that has big wins against big teams will be weighed accordingly in the ranking system. So what some may not consider is the level of competition certain teams face may be taken into account by some voters. Not speaking on any team specifically but it would be easier as a voter to rank team X higher when you know they have beat high caliber teams as oppose to team Y who hasn't faced those teams. Sorry if I got off the main question for a sec but I thought it was a thought worth discussing.