Is English your second language? Randy
----- Original Message ----- From: John Vega To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: FW: [gatortalk] rankings - pretty much #3 across all polls On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Oliver Barry wrote: Yes, I noticed we were still #4 in the BCS. I was just too disgusted to post anything. We still don’t need to worry. If we win out we are going to be in. I hope we beat Citadel by 70… And the semis by 80. I'm trying to figure out the computer rankings, it seems a bit odd. The claim is that the human polls are 2/3rds of the rankings, but it doesn't seem to be washing out that way. We are 2/10ths ahead of UT in one human poll, and over 3/10ths ahead in the other. If the computer polls are tight, maybe we stay ahead of UT. However, its seems that the computer scores are assigned to a grid; first is .98, second is .96, third is .93, fourth is .85, and fifth is .85. These numbers seem rigid. So, two teams that are very tight in the computers - instead of getting a very close score as in the two human polls - get an arbitrary separation. In the case of the spread between 3rd and 4th, that spread is large - 8/10ths, almost impossible to overcome even if the fourth place computer team is third in both human polls. Am I misinterpreting this? -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
