re: Last Chance U new season out.

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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?

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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.