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Preseason Community Poll and a New Competition

It's time once again for the greatest minds in college football to get together and rank the top schools in FBS. While there may be many different organizations that vote on rankings and even a tournament played at the end of the season, I remind everyone that this is the one true official poll that will determine the best teams in FBS each week and decide the true national champions. Polls may be done by humans or computers and may use any criteria you see fit, like I said, we make the rules and the decisions.

Poll Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?usp=header

Also a huge shoutout to @WVbrU@lemmy.world for putting together a slightly more robust backend to the super official google forms poll database.

This year I am also planning on running a competition to help with engagement. Last year we tried a bracket prediction contest and while that was fun, it had no incentive for participation for a large portion of the season. As such, this year I am planning on switching to a weekly pick 'em contest. Each week participants will be able to pick a selection of games and score points that will accumulate throughout the season. I'll let this post double as a forum to discuss the format of the pick 'em contest.

8 comments

  • So why am I not seeing the post I made a day ago on AP top 25 when I come to the sub? Everything else is like 13 days old to 3 months old being the newest. This is very strange.

    • Its there for me only when I'm looking at my subscribed feed, but not when I look at the community itself, no clue why tbh. I think you posted it right around when .world had some sort of outage so I wonder if those are related.

  • Use this comment if you'd like to discuss the pick 'em

    My current idea is 3 games a week, whoever gets the most correct gets 5 points, 2nd gets 3 and 3rd gets 1. With a score guess being the tie breaker question. But if you think there should be more games, or a different points system (1 point per correct answer for example) I'm all ears.

    • How would you pick the games? I bring this question up, because my initial thought, if I were in charge, would be to just pick the highest ranked games, or the prime time ones. That is fine, but it would lead to repeats of teams, and heavily focus on the SEC and Big10.

      I think that if we are doing picks, we should put guardrails in to ensure things are more spread. Maybe that is limit one per conference per week, or let a team in a pick'em only once a season (outside of post season games). I'm not sure, but lets discuss it. I want to have to study MAC games to win this.

      Also, if we only do 3 games a week, that only gives 8 permutations. That is fine, but if you do a championship every week kind of thing, it puts a lot of emphasis on getting the tie breaker right. I think a cumulative score would be more fun week to week, but the weakness there is people that miss the first few weeks probably have no shot.

      So it is a question of what is the goal. If it is just general engagement, the week to week champion is the best (but I would argue we should have more games so you are not relying on the tie breaker as much). Or if you want an overarching story, I think the cumulative points is better. I would favor the second option.

      Anyway, those are my thoughts after thinking about it for 3 minutes.

      • Some really good thoughts here. My initial thought was indeed the biggest games of the week, but you are right in that Oregon, tOSU, UTex would get overwhelming representation. This makes me think 5 games a week (P4 + a G5 + OOC) or 10 games (1 per conference + OOC) (side note how are we counting 2Pac?) are good ideas. And I think traditional rivalry games take priority where possible. I also like the idea of a weekly champion as opposed to a season thing, maybe we can do a separate thing for whoever wins the most weeks? Sounds like your advice here may be 10 games/week with a weekly champion?

  • Here's my ballot, which is totally fair, not biased and based on very real metrics.

    1. Texas
    2. Notre Dame
    3. Penn State
    4. Alabama
    5. Oregon
    6. Georgia
    7. LSU
    8. Miami
    9. Ohio State
    10. Florida
    11. Texas A&M
    12. Oklahoma
    13. Illinois
    14. Arizona State
    15. Tennessee
    16. South Carolina
    17. Ole Miss
    18. Michigan
    19. USC
    20. Kansas State
    21. SMU
    22. Boise State
    23. Iowa State
    24. Texas Tech
    25. Utah
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