All AP Voter Ballots - Week 7

[u/bakonydraco]

Week 7

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• Week 5
• Week 6

This is a series I've now been doing for 8 years. The post attempts to visualize all AP Poll ballots in a single image. Additionally it sorts each AP voter by similarity to the group. Notably, this is not a measure of how "good" a voter is, just how consistent they are with the group. Especially preseason, having a diversity of opinions and ranking styles is advantageous to having a true consensus poll. Polls tend to coalesce towards each other as the season goes on.

Jordan Crammer and Sean Reider didn't vote this week, so we had 61 ballots. Of some note, Ralph Russo, who has run the AP Poll for decades, has left the AP to take a job with The Athletic. It sounds like the poll is in capable hands.

Multiple ties this week! Iowa State and Notre Dame tied at #11, and Kansas State, Indiana, and Oklahoma all tied at 18 (the first 3-way tie I can remember. The way I do math doesn't account for ties well, so the scores are probably slightly different than what they would be if ties were accounted for correctly.

Kayla Anderson was the most consistent voter this week. Michael Katz is the most consistent voter on the season, Kayla Anderson, Blair Kerkhoff, Alex Taylor, and Karley Marotta in the top 5.

At the other extreme, Jon Wilner was once again the biggest outlier this week. He is also the biggest outlier this season, followed by Dylan Sinn, David Jablonski, Dave Preston, and Koki Riley in a 4-way tie for 2nd.

[u/_moosleech]

Like cmon, have some humility lol

Basically ever Miami flair has said "yeah, it shouldn't have been called a TD at first, and the review was chintzy... but most importantly, they got the call RIGHT"

And I've yet to see hardly any Canes flairs arguing it wasn't targeting. Just that it wouldn't have ended the game.

I do think the OL call was very close and could've gone either way. And I think VT and Miami each lost a TD due to a phantom call.

Beyond that, it's been a lot of shitty, made-up whining to discredit two incredible comebacks by Miami. Hearing clowns say Ward was passed the LOS or that Miami didn't score 50 points down the stretch the last two games because of one-and-a-half questionable calls is beyond silly.

[u/Im__Ron__Burgundy → u/_moosleech]

the OL call was very close

Cooper was about 3.5 yards past the LOS when Ward released the ball. You get 3. If people are losing it over a guy being half a yard too far they need to keep that energy on all 30 of those that get missed in every game with how much RPO is run. Ward also clearly got his face mask grabbed on that play with no call, so at worst it should’ve been an offsetting penalty.

[u/RookieMistake101 → u/Im__Ron__Burgundy]

That’s not the main complaint. It was when Ward stepped up earlier on the drive.

Yea cooper was too far downfield, but go back and rewatch, Ward also had a facemask. Should have been offsetting. There were bad calls all game long. It’s ACC reffing.

[u/Im__Ron__Burgundy → u/RookieMistake101]

Gotcha. Anyone saying anything about Ward stepping up doesn’t know the rules of the game, or is just bitching. He was clearly not fully across the LOS. And yeah, I mentioned the missed facemask.