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CBS Sports Blogpoll Week 6 Draft Ballot
This is not a power poll. I don't attempt to rank teams based on how good I think they are. I only rank teams based on their resume. What have they done? Not how talented are their payers or how other polls project them to do, but what have they done?The poll is designed to be dynamic. I try to...
CBS Sports Blogpoll Draft Ballot Week 4: Road Warrior Edition
This is not a power poll. I don't attempt to rank teams based on how good I think they are. I only rank teams based on their resume. What have they done? Not how talented are their payers or how other polls project them to do, but what have they done?The poll is designed to be dynamic. I try...
Tomahawk Nation Sets Record and Inspires New CBS Sports Blogpoll Rule
So the results are in the the CBS Sports Blogpoll has been tabulated. The Tomahawk Nation entry drew a lot of attention, which in turn, exposed the hypocrisy of pre-season polls. Click on our entry to see our argument. We expected another entry to use alphabetical order, which would make our...
Pre-Season CBS Sports Blogpoll
Welcome to the first edition of the 2009-2010 CBS Sports Blogpoll. This is Tomahawk Nation's third year in the poll. I happen to think pre-season polls are quite dumb, but I don't want to lose my vote, so I acquiesced. This is not a power poll. I don't attempt to rank teams based on how good I...
Preseason BlogPoll: A Call for Oracles
The BlogPoll is back again this year, and Rocky Top Talk is proud to be a voting member yet again. One of the new changes you'll see from us this year is that I'll be taking over the voting duties from Joel, due in part to the restructuring of blogging we've had since Will came aboard. I plan on...
Final CBS Sports Blogpoll
This is the final. I welcome your thoughts. We play NC State tonight at 7ET (hoops) Jamey Givens lets you know whether Trickett interviewed with Illinois and speculates on their chances of signing him if he does/ has interviewed. That's a $ link. I usually don't link paysite articles, but they...
RTT final BlogPoll ballot: week seven
RankTeamDelta 1 Alabama 1 2 Texas 2 3 Penn State 2 4 Oklahoma State 21 5 Texas Tech 9 6 Oklahoma 5 7 Southern Cal 8 8 Florida 18 9 Ohio State 3 10 Utah 3 11 Michigan State ...
The RTT computer BlogPoll ballot: raw numbers, week six
Time for yet another iteration of the RTT Ready, Fire, Aim BlogPoll ballotty thing. For a complete refresher on what we're doing, go here, here, here, and here. Prior tweaks to the system: (1) added experience ratings; (2) adjusted the weighting with a "square root of the sum of the squares." Why?...












