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theb52 Ballot for 2016 Week 3

Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Sept. 12, 2016, 11:26 p.m.

Overall Rationale: I have a computer poll that I use to help me find teams that are succeeding, then I rearrange them into a normal order. The complicated specifics of the computer poll I built are as follows:I award points for Margin of Victory (MOV) and Strength of Schedule (SOS). The SOS factor takes a couple weeks to make sense, really every school needs to play 2 FBS schools before it's accurate at all.For MOV, winning by 1 awards 10 points, winning by 28 awards 100 points. Everything in between is linear. I chose 28 as the "dominant win" ceiling so teams who decimate another aren't rewarded too much.For SOS, I add up the wins and losses of every team you've played. I USUALLY then take the win% (wins/total games) and rank off of that, but until I have enough data (Week 4ish), I'm just using wins-losses. I don't think anyone will ever read this far, so call me out in the comments of the poll thread and I'll gild you. Teams are awarded points based off of the win% of the people they play, highest win% gets 100 points, lowest win% gets 0 which is equal to an FCS team..From there, I multiply the team's average MOV points and SOS points, then rank the result. As I said, I know it's not a perfect system, so I take the results and rearrange them until I'm satisfied. If you have any criticisms, let me know, I'd be happy to get an opinion on the computer ranking I made.

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