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CallMeTheKing Ballot for 2025 Week 14

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Nov. 23, 2025, 9:06 a.m.

Overall Rationale: TERR-Q (Transitive Extrapolated Round Robin Quicksort): 1) Construct a simulated round robin amongst all FBS teams 2) For each simulated "game", if Team A has beaten Team B more times than Team B has beaten Team A, Team A records a simulated "win" and Team B records a simulated "loss". If Team A has not played Team B or they have played twice and split their games, we look at first-layer transitive wins: i.e. we look at the number of teams x such that Team A has beaten x where x has beaten Team B and we look at the number of teams y such that Team B has beaten y where y has beaten Team A. The simulated "win" goes to Team A if |x| > |y| and Team B if |x| < |y|. If |x| = |y|, we look at second-layer transitive wins: i.e. we look at the number of chains x,x' and y,y' such that Team A > x > x' > Team B and Team B > y > y' > Team A. If |(x,x')| > |(y,y')|, Team A records the simulated "win". If |(x,x')| < |(y,y')|, Team B records the simulated "win". If |(x,x')| = |(y,y')|, we move onto third-layer transitive wins. We continue this process until either Team A or Team B has recorded a simulated "win" or until we've looked at up to twelfth-layer transitive wins. 3) We split the ranked teams into two subsets, the teams with >.500 simulated round robin record and the teams with a <.500 simulated round robin record, and we run steps (1), (2), and (3) within each subset until each subset contains only one team, using the entire season's results at each layer of recursion.

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