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RTT BlogPoll Computer Rankings: BCS Week
This is the first week of the BCS rankings, where everybody's flawed methods are supposed to magically cancel each other by averaging them together. Ah, well. Here are the rankings as give...
The Rocky Top Talk Computer Rankings: What the Numbers Say (and Don't Say)
Rankings are a funny thing. As complex as football is, as large as the D-1 gene pool is, and as few games are played, the most honest answer would be to not rank at all (or perhaps to rank in ba...
College BlogPoll Ballot: Week 6 Draft
Here is the first draft for Rocky Top Talk's ballot for the college blogpoll. Discussion of the numbers in the computer follows after the jump, including one significant change to the computer s...
BlogPoll Ballot Week 5: Final Ballot
Ok, so after the Waiting for Colley moment, a revision to the weights, and some human feedback, here is the blogpoll ballot for Rocky Top Talk for week 5: RankTeamDelta 1 Florida 2 Alaba...
Computer Numbers Week 5: Increased Strength of Schedule
These are the computer numbers with the strength of schedule metric increased. This fixed most of the oddness in the ballot this week, but some still remains. I think an increase in ...
College BlogPoll Ballot, The Real First Draft
UPDATE: If you're interested in seeing the numbers with the increased weight for strength of schedule, take a look here. That list is the next iteration in this week's draft, and may need...
BlogPoll Ballot Draft Week 5: Waiting on Colley
WARNING: The ballot is not even a complete first draft yet: Colley has not updated his strength of schedules for the week (and is inordinately late so far); this is a metric that the computer ne...
College BlogPoll Week 4: Final Ballot
Having taken the comments on board, here is RTT's final ballot for the CBSSports College BlogPoll. As always, final is a bit of a subjective term, as any final desperate correctional measures ca...
College BlogPoll Week 4: Raw Computer Numbers
The numbers are up! I'm going to change my approach this week, and I think this will work better for the rest of the season. Here's the plan (for all weeks that my schedule permits): Post...
RTT College Football Blogpoll Computer Data
The ballot for the BlogPoll is here, but includes only a list of the top 35 teams (for sake of brevity). A comprehensive table of all teams follows after the jump, including the weights used thi...
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