Posters' Poll

[Mr. Ypsi]

I owe Knightstalker an apology.  By the datestamp on his ballot email, he sent it Tuesday morning - it showed up sometime THIS afternoon!  (All I can figure is it must have been an NSA intercept, and it took them two days to decode the secret message!  If you don't hear from Mr. Ypsi or Knightstalker again, we're probably sharing quarters at Guantanamo! )

When I get the chance, I'll rescore the entire first poll, giving equal weight to all ballots and including this 'submitted on time, received two days late' entry!  (I guess no more cracks about 'snail mail'! )

[dansand]

I owe Knightstalker an apology.  By the datestamp on his ballot email, he sent it Tuesday morning - it showed up sometime THIS afternoon!  (All I can figure is it must have been an NSA intercept, and it took them two days to decode the secret message!  If you don't hear from Mr. Ypsi or Knightstalker again, we're probably sharing quarters at Guantanamo! )

Chuck, are you going to change your name to Mr. Gitmo?

[Gregory Sager]

Chuck, are you going to change your name to Mr. Gitmo?

I think he should change it to Ypsi Gitmo, and embark upon a second career as either a flamenco dancer or a member of the Gipsy Kings.

[Knightstalker]

I vote for flamenco dancer, I'll be his guitarist.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I vote for flamenco dancer, I'll be his guitarist.

Well, if the NSA did detect some ominous hidden message in your ballot, you'll be there with me!

At any rate, here is the revised first poll (all ballots counted equally, knightstalker's ballot included):

1. Hope  232
2. Witt  231
3. IWU  230
4. Woo  227
5. Albion  222
6. Lawrence  198
t7. Augustana  170
t7. Puget Sound  170
9. Amherst  166
10. York  160
11. NCC  139
12. H-S  135
13. CM  112
14. B-W  110
15. WPI  99
16. Wilmington  85
17. RMC  77
18. Stout  74
19. Bluffton  69
20. Wartburg  58
21. Whitewater  49
22. Mississippi C  48
23. SJFisher  33
24. LaCrosse  24
25. NYU  21

26. Oxy  18
27. Transy  15
28. ONU  13
29. Rochester  11
30. Widener  9
31. Lincoln  8
32. Carroll  5
33. Hanover  4
34. Catholic  3
t35. Tufts  2
t35. UWSP  2
t37. Calvin  1
t37. NJCU  1
t37. WashU  1

[Mr. Ypsi]

This revised ballot is a holiday gift to FDF and any other Hope supporters - after the debacle in Albion, it is nice to see Hope in first (however briefly)!

I was curious how solid the 'big 5' was last week - pretty solid!  IWU and Woo had NO votes below 5th; Albion had 2 6ths, Witt had 1 7th, and Hope had 1 8th (interesting that the top two teams also had the lowest votes of any of the top 5).  And who replaced them was quite eclectic: Augie had 1 4th, Lawrence, NCC, and York each had 1 5th.

[Greek Tragedy]

This week's poll is going to be really hard! 

[Mr. Ypsi]

This week's poll is going to be really hard! 

I nominate you for the 'understatement of the week' award!

The old 'big five' is now officially dead - it survived Albion over Hope (if 'big five' teams play each other, SOMEONE has to lose!), but my alma mater put it to rest (at least for now, he says hopefully!).  Two weeks ago I NEVER would have thought that IWU would be the drop-out!

Still, as posted on other boards, they may fall no lower than 6th (or at most 7th) simply due to lack of alternatives.  Lawrence will replace them in the top 5 (I suspect), but who else??!!

Perhaps even more than last week, this poll cries out for starting over from scratch!

[Gregory Sager]

Two weeks ago I NEVER would have thought that IWU would be the drop-out!

Still, as posted on other boards, they may fall no lower than 6th (or at most 7th) simply due to lack of alternatives.  Lawrence will replace them in the top 5 (I suspect), but who else??!!

You can make a case for moving Augustana ahead of Illinois Wesleyan. I've seen both teams, and Wesleyan is definitely the more balanced of the two. But Augie has a certain quality to it, a certain kind of element, that keeps it from losing ballgames. A good name for this quality might be ... "Rick Harrigan".

Wesleyan has also played a much better non-conf schedule than has Augie. However, the fact that Augie is two full games ahead of Wesleyan in the CCIW standings (4-0 to 2-2), and has joined Albion and Hope in beating the great midwestern barometer (Elmhurst), while Wesleyan has just lost to them, makes for some compelling arguments in favor of the Doggies. I'm not sure if that's the way that I'm going to fill out my own ballot, but if nothing else it's food for thought.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Four ballots received so far - and already 36 teams have received votes!

The top is pretty consistent (though the order differs), but it gets REAL messy once you go below about 10.

C'mon guys, I want LOTS of compiling to do tomorrow!

[John Gleich]

I posted what each of Pat's top 25 did this past week.  It took me a while, so I'm not going to do it again for this one, but since they were so similar, feel free to use that as a tool (I know I will, that's why I did it!!).

[Mr. Ypsi]

I posted what each of Pat's top 25 did this past week.  It took me a while, so I'm not going to do it again for this one, but since they were so similar, feel free to use that as a tool (I know I will, that's why I did it!!).

Thanks, I already have - that means I only have to check out thersults for a FEW others!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Normally I do this each week PS, thanks for saving me some time.  Here is Point Special's list:

#1 Wittenberg 14-1, Beat Earlham and Hiram
#2 Hope 14-1, Lost at #4 Albion, beat Calvin
#3 Wooster 14-1, Won at Allegheny and Wabash
#4 Albion 13-1, Beat #2 Hope, won at Alma
#5 IWU 12-2, Won at Milikin, lost at Elmhurst
#6 Lawrence 12-0, Beat Grinnell and Lake Forrest
#7 Puget Sound 12-2, Beat Whitworth and Whitman
#8 Amherst 10-2, Beat Wesleyan, Lost to Trinity
#9 York (PA) 13-1, Beat Marymount and St. Marys (MD)
#10 Augustana 14-1, Beat Wheaton, won at Carthage
#11 Hampden Sydney 12-2, lost at #14 Randolph Macon, lost at Roanoke, beat Washington and Lee
#12 North Central 12-1, Won at North Park, Lost at Millikin
#13 Baldwin Wallace 13-2, Won at John Carroll, beat Marietta
#14 Randolph Macon 13-3, won at Hampden Sydney, Lost to Virginia Wesleyan
#15 WPI 13-1, Beat Fitchburg St., won at Springfield
#16 Carnegie Mellon 13-1, won at Christopher Newport
#17 Wilmington 12-3, Lost to Muskingum, lost at Mount Union
#18 UW Stout 12-4, Lost to UW River Falls, beat #23 UW Whitewater
#19 Wartburg 12-2, Beat Central, won at Simpson, won at Dubuque
#20 St. John Fisher 11-2, Beat Geneseo St. and Brockport St., won at Rochester
#21 Bluffton 13-2, Beat Franklin, lost at #25 Transylvania
#22 Mississippi College 12-1, won at LeTourneau, won at ETBU
#23 UW Whitewater 11-3 , Won at UW Platteville, lost at #18 UW Stout
#24 Occidental 11-1 , Beat La Verne and Cal Lutheran
#25 Transylvania 12-3 , Lost at Mt. St. Joseph, Beat #21 Bluffton

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It took a lot longer than last week with all the carnage, but my poll is away.  Let me know if you got the PM.

[John Gleich]

I didn't want to steal your thunder Hoopsfan.  I just wanted to have a picture of what the world looked like after this week, and I had the work done, so I figured I'd post it!