RTT's Week One Ready, Fire, Aim BlogPoll draft ballot

Second draft of the Ready, Fire, Aim RTT BlogPoll ballotty thing. For a complete refresher on what we're doing, go here, but here's the briefiest version:

• The goal is to have the RTT BlogPoll ballot be a community-developed computer poll using stats that generally correllate to success.
• Why a computer poll? To minimize or eliminate human inconsistency.
• What about subjectivity? Doesn't any computer inherit bias from its programmer? Yes, but the goal is to develop something approximating a consensus among the community of people who know what they're talking about. Once we agree on the subjectivity, we can live with it and then just make sure it's applied consistently.
• Your numbers are unreliable. Yes. At the beginning of the season, the numbers are meant only to inform living, breathing opinion and will be subject to Total Human Override. As the season progresses and the computer is tweaked, overrides will hopefully decrease. The carbon forms are watching closely, though.
• There's more, but that's the nutshell.

So on to this week, which has its very own caveats:

• The biggest change from the preseason to this week is that rather than throw in actual numbers like yards gained and try to figure out how to weigh them in relation to other stat categories, I simply ordered every team in every category from first to last and then weighted the categories in order of importance.
• Not every team played. Not every team that played has uploaded their stats. The stats are incomplete and almost completely unreliable at this point.
• Everybody who played and uploaded their stats is tied for either first or second in the all-important Win/Loss category.
• There are no strength of schedule numbers even approaching reliability, so I have everyone tied for first.
• Because not every team is represented (and because it is late), I tied everyone for Experience, too.
• The categories again: Win/Loss, Strength of Schedule, Pass Efficiency Defense, Rush Defense, 3rd Down Offense, Total Defense, Pass Efficiency Offense, Experience, Opponents Points Per Game, Total Offense, and 3rd Down Defense. The AVG R column is Average Ranking, and the last column is Weighted Average, with multipliers of 1-11 for each successive stat category.
• Expect Rampant Human Override Without Reproach again this week.
• Mistakes? Oh, yeah. Solve.

All right, then. Here's what we have:

Really not that crazy considering all of the caveats.

• Where is Missouri? 40th. West Virginia? 55th. Surely these are too low, no?
• Arizona State? 39th. Utah? 45th. South Carolina? 37th.
• Fresno State? UCLA? No stats yet.
• Miami? Huh. Almost nonexistent on any of the major polls, even in the Others Receiving Votes categories. Let's see. Against whom did they get those stats? Ah, I see. Charleston Southern. Okay, then.
• Arizona, South Florida, Houston, and Eastern Michigan. One human eyebrow raised to the hairline. Great stats will necessarily follow a 70-0 peeling of Idaho. Or a thumping of Tennessee-Martin or Indiana State or Southern University. Don't get overexcited about these games. They're at least worth keeping an eye on, though. Basically, that's the theme for this week. Most of those stats above -- and not just for lower-level teams -- were accumulated over polite audiences. So adjustments galore.

Here's the drafty draft draft. We've got a short turn-around time on this, as the ballot goes hard around 10:00 tomorrow morning unless y'all think it should be tweaked before then.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Oklahoma	2
2	Southern Cal	5
3	Ohio State	1
4	Florida	6
5	LSU	4
6	Texas Tech	13
7	Georgia	1
8	West Virginia	4
9	Missouri	1
10	Auburn	1
11	Alabama	15
12	Penn State	5
13	Texas	5
14	Kansas	5
15	Arizona State	1
16	Brigham Young	4
17	South Florida	2
18	Wisconsin	8
19	Wake Forest	7
20	Oregon	6
21	South Carolina	5
22	Fresno State	4
23	Utah	3
24	UCLA	2
25	Miami (Florida)	1

So. Thoughts?