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re: Alabama in top 3 sports

Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:04 pm to
Posted by SummerOfGeorge
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:04 pm to


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Georgia is ranked #13 all-time by the AP. Ole Miss ranks #22.


Oh, that matters?

Well......

Total AP Poll Appearances Basketball
1. Kentucky (859)
26. Alabama (293)
28. Missouri (288)
31. Arkansas (265)
32. Florida (264)
36. Tennessee (241)
43. Vanderbilt (204)
45. LSU (198)
55. Mississippi State (140)
64. South Carolina (124)
70. Texas A&M (105)
79. Auburn (90)
91. Georgia (66)
98. Ole Miss (49)
This post was edited on 3/28/16 at 2:04 pm
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:05 pm to
quote:

Oh, that matters?

Well......

Total AP Poll Appearances Basketball
1. Kentucky (859)
26. Alabama (293)
28. Missouri (288)
31. Arkansas (265)
32. Florida (264)
36. Tennessee (241)
43. Vanderbilt (204)
45. LSU (198)
55. Mississippi State (140)
64. South Carolina (124)
70. Texas A&M (105)
79. Auburn (90)
91. Georgia (66)
98. Ole Miss (49)



Posted by SummerOfGeorge
Member since Jul 2013
102699 posts
Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:06 pm to
Total AP Top 10 Appearances
1. Kentucky (662)
23. Florida (139)
29. Arkansas (118)
33. Missouri (111)
36. Alabama (100)
41. Tennessee (93)
44. Vanderbilt (87)
47. LSU (78)
57. South Carolina (59)
62. Mississippi State (51)
66. Auburn (47)
86. Texas A&M (22)
133. Georgia (1)
133. Ole Miss (1)
This post was edited on 3/28/16 at 2:07 pm
Posted by Old Hellen Yeller
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
9423 posts
Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:08 pm to
quote:

Total AP Poll Appearances Basketball
1. Kentucky (859)
26. Alabama (293)
28. Missouri (288)
31. Arkansas (265)
32. Florida (264)
36. Tennessee (241)
43. Vanderbilt (204)
45. LSU (198)
55. Mississippi State (140)
64. South Carolina (124)
70. Texas A&M (105)
79. Auburn (90)
91. Georgia (66)
98. Ole Miss (49)


I had not realized how historically terrible UGA was in basketball. It takes effort to be worse than Auburn.
Posted by BHMKyle
Birmingham, AL
Member since Feb 2013
5076 posts
Posted on 3/28/16 at 2:22 pm to
quote:

Oh, that matters?

Well......

Total AP Poll Appearances Basketball


Wrong. As I stated before, football unfortunately has not historically had a true playoff system to go by. So for football, you have to use other measures.

As I previously stated, had football had an 8, 16, or even 32-team playoff for the past 60 years or so, all that would matter in the sport was playoff appearances and the success within those playoffs. Nothing else would matter. But football has never had such a system, unfortunately.

Because of that, we have to use other measures. AP poll performance is one of those.

But with that stated, even your method of using "appearances" in the AP poll is worthless. Who cares if a team appears 50 times at #25 if your team has appeared 40 times in the Top 10?

Secondly, who cares if teams are erroneously hyped in the preseason but do nothing during the year? FINAL rankings are the only AP rankings I go by. To use anything but final rankings is just stupid.

If you weight final rankings only.... Bama is ranked behind Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri.... and is one spot ahead of Florida.

But again, thankfully basketball gives us a purer measure: The NCAA Tournament. The AP poll means far more in football than basketball because there is no such measure in football.
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