re: Living up to the hype - how teams finish compared to preseason rankings

I'm gonna add some context...

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03- start 23, finish UR. Overrated slightly

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Unranked that year meant finishing with zero votes in the AP poll. The equivalent of #36 (best case) in the final poll, not #26 -- which is how their scheme weights "unranked".

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04- start UR, finish UR. Ranked correctly

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Again Bama finished with zero votes in the AP poll -- the equivalent of #38. They started the season with 12 votes -- good enough for #37 presason. So yeah, it was a wash.

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06- start UR, finish UR. Ranked correctly

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Bama was preseason #26, just barely missed being #25. Again, they finished with zero votes. But no penalty in this scheme for receiving 141 votes in the preseason and then zero after the season is finished.

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07- start UR, finish UR. Ranked correctly.

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Started the season with no votes. Ended the season with no votes. Expectations met.

I don't really give a shite but just pointing out one of the flaws with the way they calculated this. Likewise, their scheme would reward Team A the same for starting #26 and finishing #1 as it would Team B for starting out with zero votes and finishing #1 (unpossible in reality but you get my drift).