I will crosspost this to lemmy.world, only fill out one ballot please. Week 0 is in the books, let’s see how this shakes up our polling. As previously discussed I will be posting the results on Wednesday of each week. Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?

  • utiandtheblowfish@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Here’s my breakdown with a comparison.

    I was really impressed with Hartman at ND so they got a big bump. I thought they’d be good, but I didn’t anticipate how good they’d look on offense with Hartman.

    I don’t know why I expected SoCal to be better on defense. The offense looks to be fine, but you really can’t just count on outscoring every team every week. so they dropped a good bit.

    I’ll try to avoid poll inertia as we move into week one, so I’d expect my ballot to rapidly change week-to-week.

    Rk Week 0 Week 1 Change
    1 Georgia Georgia
    2 Michigan Michigan
    3 Ohio State Ohio State
    4 Alabama Alabama
    5 Penn State Penn State
    6 Washington Washington
    7 SoCal LSU 1
    8 LSU Oregon 1
    9 Oregon Notre Dame 7
    10 TCU TCU
    11 Utah Utah
    12 Tennessee SoCal -5
    13 clemson Tennessee -1
    14 Florida State clemson -1
    15 Texas Florida State -1
    16 Notre Dame Texas -1
    17 Kansas State Kansas State
    18 Tulane Tulane
    19 Oregon State Oregon State
    20 South Carolina South Carolina
    21 Duke Duke
    22 Boise State Boise State
    23 Mississippi State Mississippi State
    24 Texas Tech Texas Tech
    25 North Carolina North Carolina
    • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialM
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know why I expected SoCal to be better on defense

      I can’t believe Alex Grinch keeps getting away with it. How many times does he have to teach us that his defenses are not to be trusted? Still, dropping 5 spots after a week 0 game is extreme, but I respect the willingness to ditch poll inertia.

      • utiandtheblowfish@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’m really trying to make my ballot an estimation of the final poll, rather than a weekly power ranking.

        Poll inertia must die for this to be reality

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    1 year ago

    I submitted my poll, will be interested to see how results change after the first real week.

    Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?

    If this is something you want to do, I’m cool with it. I made you a mod so if you or @ToasterOverlord have a graphic you want to use for the banner after your poll feel free to change it.

    Side note: I almost have all FBS team icons saved to my computer (and resized to make icons) so when I have the time to finish I’m going to revamp the sidebar a little. If you guys have ideas for this let me know, but we are limited to a 10,000 character count including formatting characters.

  • ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialM
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    1 year ago

    Submitted! Since mine is a computer poll, there aren’t enough data points to adjust after week 0 without it getting screwy, so I used my preseason poll (USC and Notre Dame I feel are in a good spot anyway). My write up for that poll is here, but I’ll start posting write ups as comments in this weekly thread.

    Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?

    I’m open to updating the banner weekly. I think we may need to switch to just showing the top 10 rather than 25. Anyone have thoughts on that?

    • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Whatever makes it look nice I think. On one hand 10 is how the other website did it and maybe it’d be nice to be different. But on the other 10 is almost certainly easier and more aesthetic.

      Edit: and any poll that ranks alabama lowly is a poll I can get behind