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ryumast3r Ballot for 2017 Week 12

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Nov. 13, 2017, 10:05 p.m.

Overall Rationale: I took the BROHM methodology from u/factorialite but with a few minor changes. First, this ranking system is pretty bad (though amusingly quite good in some ways, a la finding Clemson/OU/Alabama highly ranked).The way BROHM works is I have assigned P5 teams 150 points to start, G5 teams 100 points, FCS Playoff (last year) teams 75 points (which they cannot gain or lose but just stay at 75 always) and all other FCS teams 50 points (which again, cannot gain or lose but just stay at 50 points),For each game, a team contributes half of its points into the game pool (so if a P5 team starts against another P5 team they each contribute 75 points). Then, they take out points based on their pythagorean share in that game (PointsFOR^2/(PointsFOR^2+PointsAGAINST^2)). This way, it's possible for a "bad" team to play a "good" team close and ultimately win points despite losing the game. Alternatively, it is possible for a "good" team to win a game and ultimately lose points to a "bad" team by not beating them by enough.UPDATE: Last week I found a critical error regarding Miami (FL) that was causing it to not garner the points it should have. Due to this I updated the poll methodology to (hopefully) be a less reactive and have less recency-bias. It still has a lot of recency bias (see Boston College). I'm still tweaking the code but I think this new take on the same simple methodology is working much better.Due to this update, poll movements are reset to 0 for this week.

Rank Team Reason
1 Miami Hurricanes Points: 776
2 Alabama Crimson Tide Points: 645
3 Wisconsin Badgers Points: 637
4 Clemson Tigers Points: 561
5 Auburn Tigers Points: 551
6 Penn State Nittany Lions Points: 514
7 Ohio State Buckeyes Points: 498
8 Oklahoma Sooners Points: 474
9 Georgia Bulldogs Points: 394
10 Oklahoma State Cowboys Points: 341
11 USC Trojans Points: 332
12 Iowa State Cyclones Points: 325
13 UCF Knights Points: 308
14 Mississippi State Bulldogs Points: 300
15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Points: 288
16 TCU Horned Frogs Points: 288
17 West Virginia Mountaineers Points: 280
18 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Points: 274
19 NC State Wolfpack Points: 272
20 Stanford Cardinal Points: 270
21 Washington Huskies Points: 268
22 Michigan Wolverines Points: 247
23 Iowa Hawkeyes Points: 245
24 Northwestern Wildcats Points: 244
25 Boston College Eagles Points: 230

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