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TheJeemTeam Ballot for 2020 Week 2^3

Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Oct. 26, 2020, 6:58 p.m.

Overall Rationale: I will not be considering teams that have not yet played a game in my poll despite the fact that the other voters voted to include them for some reason. First week with Big 10 and Mountain West eligible. Still no Pac-12 or MAC though. My poll is a hybrid poll that is primarily based on a computer poll I developed. After my computer spits out the results, I take the values that are given for each team and break the ranking into tiers. I'll re-rank within tiers to allow for some adjustment for common sense. The computer poll itself has a preseason component and a performance-based component. The preseason component is based on team performance in recent years, recent recruiting, returning production, and coaching stability. This component was the entirety of my preseason poll. The performance-based component introduces winning percentage, points per game difference, and yards per play difference with strength of schedule adjustment. The overall ranking combines these two different components at different weights depending on how many games a team has played. Given the shorter and more uncertain season, I've sped up the rate at which the preseason component is phased out.

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