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Pablo49 Ballot for 2022 Week 6

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 3, 2022, 9:46 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Each game, the winning team "steals" a portion of their opponents points. This starts with a base 40% of opponent's points, plus up to 1% bonus based on margin of victory and home/away status. This 40% base decreases as the weeks go on (down to 17.5% by postseason), this is done to limit large swings as the season progresses. The season is ran both forwards and backwards (For example on week 10, the poll calculates weeks 1->10 and then weeks 10->1) and then averages those. This limits being destroyed by a week 1 loss, etc. Starting points are assigned as follows: P5: 500, G5: 400, FCS: 200. Pervious year season is ran using these starting points. Current year starts with these points, but up to an additional 500 starting points based on last year's rankings. (i.e. #1 2021 starts season with 1000 points (if P5), and downwards from there). The goal of this poll is to (mostly) treat P5 and G5 the same, and rank deserving teams. G5 is punished slightly in the pre-season calculations (20% less points), and even less in current season (~10% less than P5). This is ranking the most "deserving" teams and not an attempt to rank the "best" teams or to be predictive. For example, being ranked above another team does not imply you are the better team or should beat a lower team, just that you had better performance in your season. While this is not a particularly statistical method, as the season develops the top 10 especially usually shake out pretty decently. In the 3 years I have ran this poll (with some revisions), I have had the same top 4 as CFP twice (2020 being it's own problem), albeit slightly different seeds. So I think it works out. I'll try to comment on any teams that are outliers, or otherwise interesting, and explain why my poll loves/hates them. Since this is a computer poll, the first few weeks are rough and it will be a few more weeks before it really starts to settle. Especially 1 loss teams are completely wrecked this early in season, expect them to quickly claw their way back into poll in coming weeks. Point spread in poll starting to widen, so there should be more nuance in rankings going forward. Now losing 100 points won't completely throw you out of the rankings.

Rank Team Reason
1 Georgia Bulldogs 2099
2 Alabama Crimson Tide 1885
3 Clemson Tigers 1853
4 Michigan Wolverines 1719
5 Ohio State Buckeyes 1662
6 Ole Miss Rebels 1632 - Kentucky is now unranked from this loss. Since my poll only awards bonus for margin of victory, kentucky is still hit with the 32.5% minimum point loss to ole miss. With so many undefeated teams remaining, Kentucky really pushed out for now. They are 28 currently, so should be back soon.
7 UCLA Bruins 1520
8 Kansas Jayhawks 1495 - TOP TEN KANSAS
9 Oklahoma State Cowboys 1493
10 Penn State Nittany Lions 1484
11 USC Trojans 1417
12 Syracuse Orange 1389
13 Tennessee Volunteers 1303
14 Mississippi State Bulldogs 1296
15 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 1247
16 Wake Forest Demon Deacons 1204
17 TCU Horned Frogs 1197
18 James Madison Dukes 1194
19 Oregon Ducks 1180
20 Florida State Seminoles 1063
21 Kansas State Wildcats 1044
22 BYU Cougars 1027
23 NC State Wolfpack 1008
24 LSU Tigers 988
25 North Carolina Tar Heels 922

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