re: Let me get this straight...

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I think it is funny that people are surprised that the playoff committee has injected more subjectivity, arbitrariness, and probably bias into the system. It was obviously going to do this.

Anytime you go from hundreds of inputs (i.e., all voters in coaches poll, all voters in Harris polls, all the computer polls which themselves have hundreds of inputs each) and replace that with 12 people, basic statistics tells you that you have introduced more subectivity, arbitrariness, and bias into the result. It's why polling predictors have to have a certain sample size to be considered valid. The more inputs you have should reduce the impact of individual subjectivity and bias.

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