It is very rare you will see two teams that were in the 4 of the previous week's rankings drop so significantly in one given week — most of
the other Ranked teams got wins though and, thus, leapfrogged these two mainstays.
We ended up with several
other ranked teams losing.
Keep in mind the things the committee does that a poll might not do: specifically value games against
other ranked teams, value games against bowl - eligible teams, and reshuffle the entire board every week, rather than just sliding teams up and down.
-- # 4 Baylor was the only ranked team to be upset this week, while all other ranked losers lost to
other ranked teams - # 5 Notre Dame lost to # 2 Florida State, # 11 Oklahoma lost to # 14 Kansas State, # 15 Oklahoma State lost to # 12 TCU, # 21 Texas A&M lost to # 7 Alabama, and # 23 Stanford lost to # 17 Arizona State.
Nebraska lost only to a great Oklahoma and even greater Florida State, but handled three
other ranked teams and manhandled unranked teams by an average of 50 - 4.
Not exact matches
At AppNexus,
other members of South Eugene's basketball
team pepper the
ranks.
But now that Huffman's
team has built out new products and moderator tools, updated its
ranking algorithm, and made
other important moves, he's taking a moment to consider that perhaps the worst is now in the past.
Everyone is filling out brackets and
ranking teams against each
other.
In spite of every
other ranking factor, Google's webspam
team will still occasionally take manual action against certain sites which can take half a year to a year to recover from after you've cleaned up the problems.
Brigham Young University officials on Thursday stood by the decision to dismiss a standout player on the Cougars» highly
ranked men's basketball
team, saying they are treating Brandon Davies just like they would any
other student.
TITANIC CLASH Illinois is home to two of the nation's top -
ranked girls» basketball
teams, but they had never played each
other until Saturday, when No. 9 Bolingbrook defeated previously unbeaten No. 2 Fenwick 54 — 48.
So this is how it works — Each Week 5 of the 8 Men's
Teams (and starting next week 2 of the 4 Co-Ed
Teams) will get
Ranked in the Power
Rankings while the
other 4
Teams will remain unranked (and listed alphabetically)-- with the goal of jumping into the
Rankings the following week.
It was hard choosing who should be # 2 this week in the Power
Rankings with all three
Teams so close in the Standings and with how much they've beaten up on each
other in recent weeks..
«The selection committee had questions to, «Are they as balanced of a
team as some
others ranked just above them?»
Example A, Week 1 Power
Rankings, they were tied for 4th after splitting Volleyball 2 Games each: It's extremely fitting that these two
Teams were matched - up with each
other during Week 1 and ended with both
Teams getting 6 points a piece..
So this is how it works — Each Week 5 of the 8 Men's
Teams and 2 of the 4 Co-Ed
Teams will get
Ranked in the Power
Rankings while the
other Teams will remain unranked (and listed alphabetically)-- with the goal of jumping into the
Rankings the following week.
Team Schoder is heading to the «
Other 4» Tourney after this loss and
Team Bruck will be climbing the
rankings with their final win.
They received a valuable 15 points for the week and was able to keep pace with the
other Teams atop the Standings / Power
Rankings.
This is one of the younger squads in the field, and as I said in the Week 1 Power
Rankings — it just takes some time to mesh for younger
teams as they haven't had as many opportunities to play with each
other just yet.
When looking at the Weekly Results and Tiebreakers — more so for Power
Rankings than for potential Playoff Seeding (so many weeks to go...)-- the resumes of these
Teams do little to give one
Team the nod over the
other..
We've seen them take down the top
Teams — like dealing
Team Maione their only Loss — and they've fallen to
others who are out of the
Rankings all together.
Public bettors are prone to taking the underdog when two
ranked teams play each
other, and Saturday's game has been no different.
They have been bouncing between # 2 - 3 for the first 4 sets of the Power
Rankings and on Sunday Night they combined a dominating performance over previously unbeaten
Team McNichols with great - timing (the
other previously undefeated,
Team Maione, also went down on Sunday) and just like that
Team Lalez comes in at # 1 for the first time.
Now there is a College Football Playoff, which pits the top four
teams in the country against each
other, instead of BCS
rankings.
Why do I look at
other teams and they seem to have players always coming through the
ranks and doing very well.
The
other games in this group go to the next highest -
ranked committee
teams, paired to give us at least one blockbuster game.
The Grizzlies
ranked No. 24 in three - point shooting despite taking fewer long - range shots than all
other teams.
The
ranked team with the most to gain here is No. 10 Georgia, which blew out the Hogs and didn't play the Rebels — the four
other teams that beat Arkansas also play Ole Miss, so their resumes don't change much.
The Badgers are up to fifth in the CFP
rankings, and considering No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Miami will face each
other, they would absolutely hop the loser of that game, especially with wins over two well - regarded
teams (a No. 24 Michigan that'd only fall slightly outside the
rankings, then probably No. 9 Ohio State in the Big Ten title game) down the stretch.
provided he regains focus he can be an asset to any «
other» lower
ranked team.
Two shrewd new coaches from the college
ranks will help their
teams, and rookies will aid
others, but the likely winners are still the Celtics and the Hawks.
Michigan had to fend off Oregon, USC and
other west coast
teams to get Crawford,
ranked as the No. 119 player in the country.
With all those league winners out of the
rankings, the second pot, which we'll be in, should contain all the
other good
teams from Europe, so
teams from pots 3 & 4 probably won't trouble us in getting through to the knockout rounds.
The point of this exercise isn't to say that this supersedes any
other way to
rank players (stats,
team contributions, etc.).
Given no
other choice, voters placed unbeaten BYU, which had one win over a
ranked team (preseason No. 3 Pitt, which had plummeted to 3 -7-1), at No. 1.
This week, most of the big ramifications looked likely to involve the SEC West, with six of its seven
teams playing each
other in
ranked games.
In dispatching Alabama, Notre Dame and nine
other teams, the Nittany Lions racked up a lavish 326 points, against 123, and entered the postseason unbeaten,
ranked No. 2 and scheduled to face off against No. 1 Miami and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde in the Fiesta Bowl.
Italy and Sweden are the
other two
teams that make up the group and the Three Lions will be hoping to get off to the perfect start with a win against their Portuguese counterparts, that boast reported Arsenal target William Carvalho [via Mirror Sport] in their
ranks.
If a
team from your conference's
other division beats up on your division, well, now you've got a more highly
ranked opponent to beat in the conference title game.
And since this is a zero - sum game, you just screwed a lot of
other teams out of a prospective top -
ranked Center, so kudos for that!
When top
ranked teams (RU or
others) consistently miss the tourney while less competitive
teams get in there should be a serious check of the selection process.
If a
team is picking at # 36 and doesn't pick again till # 80 and they have a guy that they think will be a first round talent at # 65 who is
ranked higher, by them, then all the
other guys between # 36 and # 65 what do you expect them to do?
With youngsters like Iwobi, Zelalem and
others coming through the
ranks and
others coming back from injury we should make up for a formidable
team that can actually challenge for the PL.
The odd exception of Iwobi, Gibbs or Wilshere may come all the way through the
ranks at Arsenal before becoming a valuable member of the first
team, but more often than not its the Bellerin's, Szczesny's and the Fabregas» that are taken from
other clubs at a young age and then put through as our very own players.
Paxton Lynch is one that we hammer a lot as the biggest bust, but Dallas tried to get him, and
other teams had him
ranked where we had him as well.
Whilst all
other teams strengthen their
ranks and at least attempt to make an effort to win things, we are told to expect only challenge for a top 4th position, and then expected to celebrate as if we won the league or champions league... Each year we tend horde our dead - wood / dead - weight who earn too much money for their return in this current climate.
However, while one
team remains a legitimate title contender, the
other has dropped out of the
rankings altogether.
The Ducks were great in some aspects (eighth in kickoff success rate) and terrible in
others (121st in punt success rate) on their way to a No. 78
ranking in Special
Teams S&P +.
End of the day every
team has 11 blokes with 2 legs each kicking a ball around for 90 mins — you'd be given for thinking the
other teams are cheating and filling their
ranks with superheroes possessing unearthly gifts.
My research found that when two
ranked teams play each
other, the favorite has gone 276 - 231 ATS (54.4 %) with a 6.3 % return on investment (ROI).