[FRCTop25.com] Final Rankings Show!

[Patrick Flynn]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I did vote... In the coaches poll... and that was cancelled.
I love the concept of the show, my fault is with the voting process. Even if everyone informed votes, they will be drowned out tenfold by the rest of chiefdelphi. This was very evident in the 2011 rankings comparing the public vs. coaches poll.

You didn't vote this week which in turn gives you no right to complain about how the votes turned out this week. That is like complaining that we picked the wrong president but you didn't vote. If you give up your right/ ability to vote you also give up your right to complain about it.

The problem with the coaches polls are that these "experts" can't be experts every week some weeks their competing other weeks their working at their own jobs. Its just as hard for them to see all the teams compete as it is anyone else. Many times the coaches polls were skewed based on what regional they were at and what teams they saw play.

Originally Posted by connor.worley

Somehow, I don't see this making the rankings more insightful. For the same reasons we hold Looking Forward posts and the like above normal chatter.

This wouldn't make them more insight full never has the claim been made that these top 25 should top your pick list. Its just a voter generated list of some teams that are playing this years game really really good. If you have some time to look at these teams we could all learn something from them.

More voters would help to balance out the regional bias. If we currently have 70% of the votes coming for the east coast, more overall voters would result in more people from the west coast or any other region. This would help to remove these "favorite" regions. Everyone is mentioning these "regional bias" but most people are failing to mention that Texas has the second most teams in the Top 25, and there are no NE teams.

Ranking teams based on performance numbers is easy to do, it takes some work to general all the necessary data but after that all you have to do is sort the teams. The point of the show is for fun, its just a fun ranking that isn't just a set of numbers read off a spreadsheet. Sure we could use OPR but i think everyone would agree that if we had done this last year the Top25 would have been really skewed.