Re: Kansas is #1

On Jan 11, 10:46 am, Seapig <sea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 11, 8:01 am, estebanJ <sjar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

it's not just voters. across 86 computers, 77 have LSU ranked ahead of
Kansas, compared to 9 that have Kansas over LSU:

http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm

If I wanted to just follow the majority, I wouldn't be arguing against
LSU. The fact that 9 computers have Kansas above them tells me that
there is an argument to be made there; it's not just some lone nutjob
in his parents' basement with a Commodore 64.

No, but the ratio does reflect the respective strenghts of those
arguments. :)

The wisdom of public opinion can be summed up in the sentence "The
People's Choice Award goes to... Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's
End."

i liked that movie. wasn't nearly the year's best, but entertaining.

anyway, we were talking about computers here.

I've never said arguing kansas > lsu is "nutty".

Anderson has said as much. Sometimes it's hard to tell you two apart.

you should post a complement to anderson in reply to one of his
posts.

Not to mention
that Kansas only gave one of their opponents a boost by losing to
them; LSU gave two of them boosts (all the way into the "also
receiving votes" category).

kentucky won a bowl game, and arkansas got tagged with a loss in theirs
because they faced a much higher-finishing opponent (not talking about
subjective rank, but how arkansas and mizzou objectively finished in
their conference standings).

They're both good teams, I think they both should be ranked (in part
because of their wins over LSU). I just don't think they're the type
of teams a champion should lose to. Once, maybe, but not twice.

No one is saying LSU is equal to Texas 2005 or somesuch. Sometimes,
you don't have to be super-great to be the most-accomplished team in a
given year. This was a down year, a year of 'parity', whatever you
want to call it.

That's true. I can't imagine arguing for a team with Kansas's record
in any previous season. They didn't have a super-great season; but
everyone else's was even less great.

well except for lsu, and probably georgia and mizzou. and we'd all
favor OK and USC over them, too. Probably WVU as well.

IMO, more than enough of an SOS gap to negate 1 less loss.
LSU played a tougher schedule, but look at it this way:

Let's say somebody holds a gun to your head and says "Your team is
either going to play Kansas's schedule or LSU's schedule (bowl
opponents included). If you play Kansas's schedule, I'm pulling the
trigger after one loss. If you play LSU's schedule, I'm pulling the
trigger after three losses." Which one would you choose?

er, this isn't registering ..

Answer the question! There's a gun to your head!

Kansas with 1 loss equals LSU with 3?

That's not an answer, that's a question. You'd better hope the guy
with the gun is a patient man.

i don't understand the question. i think it more likely any great team
would lose only 1 against kansas's schedule then just 2 vs. lsu's, if
that helps.

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