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SMQ pulls a little guest duty this evening at Every Game Counts, talking aesthetics, continuing his futile campaign against Ohio State as THE Number One Team and putting superstitious medics on alert in Charlottesville in preparation for the surely seizure-inducing fender-bender betwixt Maryland and Virginia.

Every Game's previous guest bloggers have included luminaries as esteemed as Peyton Manning, Mack Brown and the inspiring Dan Hawkins, as well as schlubs like Peter. No word on which category's archives will be home to the wisdom of SMQ.

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Here's five more questions for you
Thoughtful answers - I'd expect no less from a fellow schlub, but here's five more for you.  Answer in comments, send me an email, or post. I couldn't care less. But I'm interested in your thoughts.
  1. How difficult do you think it is to avoid power pollage when you attempt to rank strictly on resume? I ask you, specifically, because 1) you went with a preseason power poll of sorts, 2) you now attempt to rank your ballot strictly by resume (which is not to say you were wrong to do so), and 3) you've thought about the distinction between the two extensively. The short question would be: how difficult do you find it to be in ranking strictly on resume?
  2. Is it even possible to avoid some amount of power polling? Let's take this to the next level. I ask you because, well, because you're thoughtful enough to sort through it: What if, as an example, Tennessee had tanked after their whipping of Cal. But Cal still improved as much as they have since week one. Does it affect Cal's resume? Should it?
  3. As much crap as the BCS has gotten, it seems to be an improvement over the old system, in my view. Agree?
  4. Should margin of victory be allowed in computer polls?
  5. Who you callin a schlub?
Okay, that's a lot to digest. So maybe just tuck em away for whenever. Maybe the offseason is the time to wax philosophical about these things. I got rather into these questions over the past offseason, and your Five Questions guest spot got my battery charged again.

PB

by PB @ BON on Oct 11, 2006 10:39 PM EDT   0 recs

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Not SMQ, but...

#3. No, I do not like the over-reliance on the polls. If human opinions are to have that much influence, it should not be the opinions of folks who all get 90 percent of their information about teams from the same source.

#4. Sure MOV should be allowed in the computers. It certainly is THE major factor for the human voters who usually know nothing about the game except the final score. Sometimes I think they only look at the first digit of the winner's score, since they seem to think a 42-28 victory is more impressive than a 35-10 one...

by JPK on Oct 12, 2006 10:21 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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