Top 25 talk

[Greek Tragedy]

You know, all this conference talk in regards to nonconference records and all that, should be discussed in the new Inter-conference thread! lol.   

Though, I guess it is still Top 25 related!

[cardinalpride]

PS -

I think that one of the reasons that NC has not gotten much Top 25 love this year stems from the self-immolation of last season.  This is a brutal conference and most voters want to see how things pan out a bit.

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[Greek Tragedy]

Regarding the proposed Poster's Top 25 Poll

I've decided not to run one.  If anyone else is willing to set it up and keep track of all the information, I'd be happy to be a voter.  Sorry to bust anyone's holiday bubbles.    It seems like a lot of work that I don't want to commit to! 

I do have a list of potential voters, so if someone wants to get one running, I can send you the list I compiled last season.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Regarding the proposed Poster's Top 25 Poll

I've decided not to run one.  If anyone else is willing to set it up and keep track of all the information, I'd be happy to be a voter.  Sorry to bust anyone's holiday bubbles.    It seems like a lot of work that I don't want to commit to! 

I do have a list of potential voters, so if someone wants to get one running, I can send you the list I compiled last season.

Fortunately, the best part of the d3 season comes during the (mostly) lightest part of my 'season' - if no one else volunteers, I will do the Posters Top 25.  I CANNOT guarantee that it will run EVERY week, but I'll do my best.  If anyone can offer a better situation, I encourage you (no, I BEG you) to step forward, but otherwise I will do it.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Cabs - thanks for...

can we call that volunteering? - maybe only in the military sense of the word   

P.S. I would love to be a voter

[smedindy]

Oh, can we still do a bottom 10?

[hugenerd]

Carnegie Mellon beat Princeton tonight 51-46, leading the game probably more than 35 minutes of the game.  Sloppy game overall for both teams but Carnegie did what they had to do.

Go Tartans

[Ralph Turner]

Oh, can we still do a bottom 10?

#10 Princeton...

[bouttime]

I'm interested to see how a win against a D1 team affects CMU's ranking. I feel that with their win and losses by several teams ahead of them that they will see a nice jump up in the polls.

[Ralph Turner]

bouttime, this might not be the answer you were implying, but to remind the "newbies", the ranking in the various polls may be impacted by the win.

The result against a D1 school (or any other non-D3 school) has no effect on the NCAA Regional Rankings.  The first of three weekly rankings will be released on Feb 8th.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Regarding the proposed Poster's Top 25 Poll

I've decided not to run one.  If anyone else is willing to set it up and keep track of all the information, I'd be happy to be a voter.  Sorry to bust anyone's holiday bubbles.    It seems like a lot of work that I don't want to commit to! 

I do have a list of potential voters, so if someone wants to get one running, I can send you the list I compiled last season.

Fortunately, the best part of the d3 season comes during the (mostly) lightest part of my 'season' - if no one else volunteers, I will do the Posters Top 25.  I CANNOT guarantee that it will run EVERY week, but I'll do my best.  If anyone can offer a better situation, I encourage you (no, I BEG you) to step forward, but otherwise I will do it.

Alas!  No one else has stepped up!

IF I am to do it, here are the rules:

I'm loathe to do 'by invitation only' since there are so many posters I don't really know.  But I also want to guard against 'drive-by' posters.  Thus, votes will be weighted: HoFers' votes are tripled, Starters and above are doubled, everyone else is at face value.  (Statuses are as of the first poll - no later changes.)

Voters are allowed one pass - anyone who has not voted in the first two polls will not be allowed in (we want SOME consistency in the 'pundocracy')!

Anyone who seems (to me!) to be overly 'homerish' will be confronted off-line.  If you convince me that the voting was legit, it will count.  If not, it won't.  (If this provision is unacceptable, I DID beg other people to take over the polling!)

Any objections (or suggestions or additions) to these rules should be posted by Jan 4; after that date they are THE LAW.

Votes for the first poster-poll must be submitted by 5pm, Jan 10 (for games thru Jan 8th).  Send votes (or whatever!) to cabonney@netscape.net.

[bouttime]

Ralph, I was just curious about how it impacts the top 25 rank.

[Ralph Turner]

bouttime, the d3hoops.com web site is being upgraded, so I cannot confirm the rankings from 2 weeks.

If I were to speculate the rise that CMU gets from the win, I would expect maybe another 25 votes in the vote total, e.g., every voter will rank CMU one spot higher by virtue of the win.  I have not calculated the impact of any teams that have lost inthe last 2 weeks.

I will bet that CMU fans will be abuzz about the team when they return.

[David Collinge]

Here's Carnegie Mellon in the polls this season.

Preseason: no votes
Week 1: no votes
Week 2: effective rank 29 (79 votes)
Week 3: rank 23 (114 votes)
Week 4: rank 22 (90 votes)

[Pat Coleman]

bouttime, the d3hoops.com web site is being upgraded, so I cannot confirm the rankings from 2 weeks.

Shouldn't be -- the site was only momentarily offline on New Year's Eve and earlier this afternoon. Only outdated, dumbed-down technology (such as, unfortunately, the built-in AOL browser) would show otherwise. You'll get a better browsing experience and more recent information webwide by using your PC's Internet Explorer rather than AOL's built-in IE.