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ryumast3r Ballot for 2017 Week 14

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Nov. 27, 2017, 8:10 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: Two weeks ago 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.

Rank Team Reason
1 Auburn Tigers Points: 815 Move: +4
2 Wisconsin Badgers Points: 784 Move: 0
3 Clemson Tigers Points: 769 Move: +1
4 Oklahoma Sooners Points: 589 Move: +2
5 Penn State Nittany Lions Points: 559 Move: +3
6 Ohio State Buckeyes Points: 534 Move: +1
7 Miami Hurricanes Points: 518 Move: -6
8 Georgia Bulldogs Points: 472 Move: +1
9 Alabama Crimson Tide Points: 466 Move: -6
10 Pittsburgh Panthers Points: 374 Move: +50
11 TCU Horned Frogs Points: 370 Move: -1
12 Stanford Cardinal Points: 367 Move: +11
13 Oklahoma State Cowboys Points: 361 Move: +2
14 Washington Huskies Points: 340 Move: +11
15 Iowa State Cyclones Points: 333 Move: -3
16 USC Trojans Points: 331 Move: +1
17 NC State Wolfpack Points: 314 Move: +2
18 Northwestern Wildcats Points: 304 Move: -4
19 UCF Knights Points: 300 Move: -6
20 Iowa Hawkeyes Points: 298 Move: +17
21 Boston College Eagles Points: 296 Move: 0
22 Virginia Tech Hokies Points: 290 Move: +10
23 LSU Tigers Points: 259 Move: +4
24 Kansas State Wildcats Points: 249 Move: 0
25 West Virginia Mountaineers Points: 246 Move: +5

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