This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Perryapsis on 2024-11-11 13:00:01+00:00.
TABLE
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 12. 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. 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 Mississippi is ranked 10th in this week’s poll, and 27 voters placed the Rebels 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.
Some data is back on the table after being AWOL all season. Team logos are back, as well as information about previous and upcoming games for each team. But the logos default to be flush with the top-left of each cell, so I had to center them by hand. So none of them are pixel perfect, and I’m sure I missed at least one completely. The column with TV channels is also still missing for now. I went through and adjusted the colors to what I used in the past as well, so they are less ridiculously saturated and easier to look at.
As always, this project is, and always will be, a work in progress, so please feel free to share feedback and suggestions for improvement.
The trend of unusually strong consensus continues this week. In past years, there has not been this much agreement amongst voters, especially near the bottom of the rankings. This week, only 26 top-20 votes were cast for teams that didn’t end up ranked that high. Typically, almost every team below 15 fails to appear on each ballot, and “unranked” is usually the most common placement for teams below 20. This week, only one team above 20th failed to sweep all 62 ballots, and only by one vote (Koki Riley didn’t rank Logo Army again). The receiving-votes section is sparse again, with only five teams altogether, and only one (Logo Iowa State, via Adam Cole) received a vote higher than 20th. They received 63 votes in total (4.0%) for only 169 points (0.8%).
Thanks again to u/bakonydraco for providing the ballot data; you can find his weekly visualization here. Also check out u/ajseventeen’s post doing basically the same visualization for the r⁄CFB Poll when it comes out tomorrow. And thank you for reading; happy Veterans Day!