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Darth_Ra Ballot for 2024 Week 2

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Sept. 3, 2024, 12:14 p.m.

Overall Rationale: #Average Ranking Rankings (ARR!) For those who haven't seen my computer poll before, the general rundown is that it attempts to average an easily understandable "Master Ranking" number from all of the *rankings* of stats, power rankings, and other data I can get that includes all ~~130~~ ~~131~~ ~~133~~ 134 teams that fairly compare teams and coaches across systems and conferences. In other words, I want to end up with a master number that is easily grokkable (#1 Georgia avg ranking 14.25, #67 Cal avg ranking 54.78, & #134 UTEP avg ranking 88.64) that will tell you what the average ranking of a team is across a large spectrum of criteria that hopefully encapsulates what makes a football team "good". NOTE to the "WE SHOULD BAN ALL COMPUTER POLLS" folks: If you're wondering why you're not seeing ~~your~~ ________ team here, the most likely reason at this point is two-fold. 1) They probably have a questionable Strength of Schedule. 2) They played an FCS team, which most of my statistical categories do not count/capture, seeing it as "noise" sorts of outlier data. In other words... wait a week, and be glad that we have at least one poll that is ignoring Tennessee beating Chattanooga by 66 points, knowing that we're going to see them probably beat NC State by 42 points next week and they'll jump right back up in the rankings. You're gonna be fine, I promise.

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