Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Jan. 10, 2018, 12:44 a.m.

Overall Rationale: I DID IT. I FINALLY MADE A COMPUTER POLL THAT ISN'T NONSENSE. I've been trying to do this for at least 2 years now, so I really can't express how happy I am. HOW DOES IT WORK? I'll explain with an example. Every team is ranked top to bottom AND bottom to top (Alabama is ranked 1st top to bottom and 130th bottom to top). Alabama beat FSU, so Alabama gains points equal to FSU's rank bottom to top for the previous week (48) and FSU loses points equal to Alabama's rank top to bottom for the previous week (-1). This rewards teams for beating good teams (+130 points for taking down last week's best team) and punishes teams less for losing to good teams (Q U A L I T Y L O S S). Beating an FCS team only gets you 1 point, while losing to an FCS team loses 130 points. That number is then divided by the total number of games a team has played. For those of you that keep up with this week-to-week (nobody), I just added this this week. I was struggling for a way to even out teams that didn't play in conference championships and it ended up helping teams that missed games due to hurricanes too. People may disagree with it, but I'm happy with the methodology. Constructive criticism is welcome.I haven't updated the Google Sheet with the methodology change, but if you want to see it, call me out and I'll update it.FIRST FIVE OUT 26 Mississippi State (33.4) 27 Memphis (31.7) 28 Wake Forest (31) 29 Virginia Tech (29.6) 30 Boston College (28.5)

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Rank	Team	Reason
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	71.2
2	Wisconsin Badgers	70.6
3	Clemson Tigers	69.3
4	Ohio State Buckeyes	69.2
5	Georgia Bulldogs	67.9
6	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	65.5
7	UCF Knights	64.9 #StateOfFloridaNationalChamps?
8	Penn State Nittany Lions	63.5
9	USC Trojans	59.7
10	Oklahoma Sooners	58.3
11	Michigan State Spartans	56.2
12	Miami Hurricanes	50.7
13	Washington Huskies	47.6
14	Northwestern Wildcats	46.8
15	Auburn Tigers	45.4
16	TCU Horned Frogs	44.7
17	Stanford Cardinal	44.4
18	NC State Wolfpack	42.3
19	Iowa Hawkeyes	41.4
20	Washington State Cougars	38.3
21	Oklahoma State Cowboys	36.1
22	South Carolina Gamecocks	35.7
23	Boise State Broncos	35.5
24	LSU Tigers	34.8
25	Michigan Wolverines	34.2

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.00
2	Wisconsin Badgers	2.22
3	Clemson Tigers	1.03
4	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.03
5	Georgia Bulldogs	-1.53
6	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	1.36
7	UCF Knights	-0.58
8	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.00
9	USC Trojans	0.57
10	Oklahoma Sooners	-2.95
11	Michigan State Spartans	0.68
12	Miami Hurricanes	0.00
13	Washington Huskies	0.21
14	Northwestern Wildcats	0.56
15	Auburn Tigers	-0.66
16	TCU Horned Frogs	-1.81
17	Stanford Cardinal	0.25
18	NC State Wolfpack	1.09
19	Iowa Hawkeyes	5.03
20	Washington State Cougars	2.62
21	Oklahoma State Cowboys	-1.80
22	South Carolina Gamecocks	2.16
23	Boise State Broncos	0.00
24	LSU Tigers	-0.38
25	Michigan Wolverines	0.14

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
USF Bulls	0.62
Mississippi State Bulldogs	0.83
Memphis Tigers	0.19

Total Score: 29.30