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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Perryapsis on 2024-08-14 11:00:00+00:00.
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HOW TO READ THIS TABLE
Teams are ranked in their order from the Logo (note for mobile users: everywhere you see a “Logo” link, that means that inline flair is shown on old.reddit.com/r/cfb) AP Poll for Week 1. The column to the right of the team name shows the number of points that team received using the AP Poll’s Borda count rules. Continuing from last season, the following two columns show information about each team’s previous and upcoming games. The following columns show how many votes for each ranking the team received. The ‘U’ column shows how many voters left the team unranked (off their ballots entirely). Gridlines are placed every 5 rows and columns for ease of reading. A thick line is placed below the 25th-ranked team to distinguish “ranked” teams above it to “receiving votes” teams below it.
Some cells are shaded to highlight points of interest. The green diagonal highlights how many voters ranked a team exactly where they ended up in the overall poll. For example, Logo Florida State is ranked 10th in this week’s poll, and 10 voters placed the Seminoles exactly in their 10th spot. Values for which a team received no votes at that rank are shaded in red, while placements chosen by only exactly one voter are highlighted in blue. The most common selection (the mode) for each team is shaded yellow. Finally, since there are very few votes that ever end up near the top-right or bottom-left of the chart, those cells are filled in with black diagonally as much as possible without covering up any nonzero values. This helps naturally guide the eye while viewing the chart and helps locate the most unusual votes. We lightheartedly call these the “Wilner” diagonals.
Returning readers will notice that there are no changes or new information on the table this year. I’ve just been busy with real life this summer, so I haven’t had a chance to do anything besides basic code maintenance. So please do still send in recommendations and feature requests, and I will work on them as time permits.
NOTES FOR THIS WEEK
The upper Wilner diagonal was set by Koki Riley’s vote for Logo Michigan in 21st place. That selection is 12 spots below the Wolverines’ consensus rank in the poll. On the other side, the lower Wilner diagonal was set by Jon Wilner himself, one of two voters to rank Logo Nebraska. While Kirk Kenney put the Huskers 22nd, Wilner had them in 14th place, putting them 20 ranks above the poll’s consensus. The team with the most votes matching their rank is Logo Georgia. 46 voters placed the Bulldogs in 1st place. On the other hand, the team with the fewest votes matching their rank is Logo North Carolina State, with only 5 voters ranking the Wolfpack in their 24th spot. Altogether, 333 votes matched the team’s rank in the poll. Moreover, 435 votes were off by ±1 rank, 255 were off by ±2 ranks, 159 were off by ±3 ranks, 108 were off by ±4 ranks, and 55 were off by ±5 ranks. The highest-ranked team to be left off a ballot is Logo Tennessee, as 2 voters did not have the Volunteers on their ballot. The lowest-ranked team to appear on all 62 ballots was Logo Clemson in 14th. The two closest teams were Logo Southern California and Logo North Carolina State, with only 1 point keeping the Trojans over the Wolfpack. Conversely, a whopping 200 points (3.2 ranks’ worth) separate Logo Miami (FL) and Logo Texas A&M, more than any other teams only one rank apart.
This week, teams in the receiving-votes section received 134 votes (8.6%) for a total of 441 points (2.2%). That is a much lower proportion of votes and points than in the past, indicating that pollsters’ opinions are much more homogeneous than they have been in the past. Logo Nebraska received the highest vote of any team in that area, with Jon Wilner ranking the Cornhuskers in his 14th slot. 332 distinct team-rank combinations occurred in votes this week, of which 96 (29%) were unique. The most common vote was placing Logo Georgia 1st, cast by 46 voters (74%). The team with the lowest variation in votes was Logo Georgia with a standard deviation of 0.524. On the other hand, nobody could agree on where to put Logo Miami. The Hurricanes had the largest standard deviation of 4.82.
This poll has a lot more agreement between voters than usual for a preseason poll, so there aren’t too many crazy votes to talk about. It is interesting that every team from 15th to 19th place were left off at least one ballot, but none of them received any votes for exactly 25th place. It’s also interesting to see a large number of mode flips this week, with Logo Note Dame and Logo Penn State, Logo Michigan and Logo Florida State (and Logo Missouri), Logo Utah and Logo Louisiana State, and Logo Oklahoma State and Logo Kansas State all flipped.
TABLE IN CSV FORMAT
Want to have a go at analyzing or visualizing the data on your own? Here is a CSV dump for easy copying:
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SEASON PROGRESSION
VOTER BALLOT COMPARISONS
In following weeks, there will be a section here showing how each team has progressed in the poll over the course of the season. There will also be quick-and-dirty tables compared
PAST WEEKS
SPECIAL THANKS
I would like to thank u/bakonydraco for providing the data set that makes this post possible. If you like this table, then you will also like his weekly voter-by-voter ballot breakdown. That post is also great for answering your “Who ranked [team] at [place]?” questions. You can find his post for the preseason poll here.
I would also like to thank u/BlueSCar, who runs the College Football Data API, which I used to get the game and TV information.
And finally, thank you for reading all the way to the end!
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