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Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:10 pm to F Secunda8
Posted on 7/23/17 at 1:10 pm to F Secunda8
I'm only a few episodes in but have a question about how they do the standings. The EMCC announcer has a few times told us about the standings and says it could be biased, there's a human element, etc. A few times they've also shown a full list of the standings top to bottom, and every time they have (and I've paused it to double check) the standings are completely and 100% based on points scored. Records varied from top to bottom but the one thing that was certain was it went in descending order of points scored.
Can someone elaborate?
Can someone elaborate?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 2:13 pm to WG_Dawg
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I'm only a few episodes in but have a question about how they do the standings. The EMCC announcer has a few times told us about the standings and says it could be biased, there's a human element, etc. A few times they've also shown a full list of the standings top to bottom, and every time they have (and I've paused it to double check) the standings are completely and 100% based on points scored. Records varied from top to bottom but the one thing that was certain was it went in descending order of points scored.
Can someone elaborate?
It's a human poll. Don't know the points breakdown...but it isn't that different than how the BCS used to work when it used the AP per say. If you vote a team 1st in your personal poll it gives them more points. A way to manipulate that poll is to vote a deserving team very low to prevent them from getting the points they deserve say as the #3 team. I have no idea who the poll is made up of, but human bias plays a huge role in those types of polls. It's why the titles won up until the BCS and really the playoff system were so suspect at the D-I level.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 5:34 pm to WG_Dawg
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Can someone elaborate?
I don't know exactly what it is, but points scored does have something to do with getting to the national championship. They mentioned it in the first season I'm pretty sure, and that's the reason they run up the score against some of the weaker teams the way they do. It doesn't hurt that Buddy's an a-hole and doesn't really give a shite about running up the score.
ETA: What's so funny to me is back in 2003 when he was recruiting me, he was the OL coach at PRCC, and you would've never thought he could be doing what he's doing now.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 5:35 pm
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