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SurpriseSalami Ballot for 2017 Week 7

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 8, 2017, 10:13 a.m.

Overall Rationale: This is my first ever computer ballot, so there will be plenty of kinks to work out throughout the season. I should also mention that I am not a data scientist, statistician, or even particularly good at math; this is a quasi-learning experience/quasi-for funsies thing I've been interested in for a bit.I'm not over the moon with the results so far, but I'm also not super upset about them either. My methodology is fairly straight forward: all stats are backwards looking and I take overall win percentage, average point differential, and strength of schedule and assign each result a ranking against all FBS teams, then the ranking gets put in a fairly simple formula of (WPS*2)+(APD/2)+SOS for a final rank - the team with the lowest final score gets ranked first. The idea being that your record matters the most, point differential also matters but not as much as your strength of schedule (I'd rather you squeak by good teams than blow out bad ones).I'll be tweaking this throughout the year but this has been fun so far.

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