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2014 College Football Playoff Open Thread

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Buckeye Maniac said:
But with an election you know exactly how many people voted for each candidate. I don't see why it would be so weird that all the committee members know the results of each vote, if not which way they all voted.
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thing is we(maybe just me)don't know how the system is setup.. is it a top 25 system with points etc.. or where they just going by # of votes in each slot?
 
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AuTX Buckeye said:
thing is we(maybe just me)don't know how the system is setup.. is it a top 25 system with points etc.. or where they just going by # of votes in each slot?
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Yea, it could definitely be set up like that, but people are saying there's no way that anyone could know the vote because that's not how the committee worked, but who knows how they worked other than the people involved with it?
 
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Palpie said:
I thought they voted their top 4 (or 10 or 25, whatever) and tallied up the results like the traditional polls. So there wouldn't be a direct vote between baylor and osu.

Also, you'd think someone would point out to briles that patterson had/has at least as much of a complaint and has wisely let it go. For which most ppl respect patterson while almost everyone's reaction to the great whiner is to wish he'd go away or at least just shut up. I'd love for baylor to end up #5 again next season and for the committee to come out and say it was cause briles was such a bitch.
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Per this link:

College Football Playoff Selection Committee Voting Process​
  1. Each committee member will create a list of the 25 teams he or she believes to be the best in the country, in no particular order. Teams listed by three or more members will remain under consideration.
  2. Each member will list the best six teams, in no particular order. The six teams receiving the most votes will comprise the pool for the first ranking step.
  3. In the first ranking step, each member will rank those six teams, one through six, with one being the best. The best team in each member’s ranking will receive one point, second-best two points, etc. The members’ rankings will be added together and the three teams receiving the fewest points will become the top three seeds. The three teams that were not seeded will be held over for the next ranking step.
  4. Each member will list the six best remaining teams, in no particular order. The three teams receiving the most votes will be added to the three teams held over to comprise the next ranking step.
  5. Steps No. 3 and 4 will be repeated until 25 teams have been seeded. There will be seven rounds of voting; each round will consist of a “listing step” and a “ranking step.”
 
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They vote in chunks of 6 - first decide which 6 teams, then vote again to put them in order and the top-3 are set in stone. Rinse-wash-repeat for 4-6 - so 4 always does end up being a vote between 6 teams.
But you can basically revote umpteen times - and from comments and the mock setup they can do a revote over 1 position between 2 teams. I'm not sure if this happens explicitly, or just by understood agreement as they go back through the process and agree to keep the same order up to a certain spot.
I also don't think it'd be too difficult to figure out whose voting for whom in the top-4 given they're discussing it all year and for hours on end.
If you had to go in front of a group of people and advocate for your political choices before filing a secret ballot... how secret is it really?
 
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kujirakira said:
They vote in chunks of 6 - first decide which 6 teams, then vote again to put them in order and the top-3 are set in stone. Rinse-wash-repeat for 4-6 - so 4 always does end up being a vote between 6 teams.
But you can basically revote umpteen times - and from comments and the mock setup they can do a revote over 1 position between 2 teams. I'm not sure if this happens explicitly, or just by understood agreement as they go back through the process and agree to keep the same order up to a certain spot.
I also don't think it'd be too difficult to figure out whose voting for whom in the top-4 given they're discussing it all year and for hours on end.
If you had to go in front of a group of people and advocate for your political choices before filing a secret ballot... how secret is it really?
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I think the top 3 were set in stone this year because it was obvious who they'd be. Is that top 3 a rule going forward?
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I think the top 3 were set in stone this year because it was obvious who they'd be. Is that top 3 a rule going forward?
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Yea, see Mili's post.
- Decide on a pool of teams (no specified limit but obviously over 25; probably in 30-40 range) they want to take seriously
- Decide a group of 6 from that pool
- Rank only those 6 in an order
- Of that top6 ranking, 1-3 is kept; 4-6 go back into the pool
- Choose a group of 6 from the pool again
- Rank those in an order... top 3 is added to the previous, giving a top-6; bottom 3 go back into the pool
etc. etc.
 
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Just so we're clear art, you are preaching that:

A) the committee snubbed you with a vote that could have ended in a tie

B) they clearly didn't like you

C) clearly the team that lost to MSU should have gone instead, even though sparty was blown out late by Oregon and osu?
 
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I'm not sure 1-3 is as clearcut as the polls made it though. The only one that should've been clearcut was FSU.
Bama especially got by on reputation, ESPN cheerleading, and a very weak Division OOC schedule... the latter two came home to roost when they finally had to play P5 teams out of conference in the bowls.
 
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OSUK said:
I'm just going on record as saying I like the CFBP, and I think it turned out really well. :biggrin2:
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Yes it did.
 
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