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OK, so I have been remiss updating the basketball blogpoll this year.  So sue me.  Anyway, I did submit a ballot all bot one time so far (in week one).  What you see below is my Week 3 ballot, and the deltas between Week 2.

This year, I have changed my ranking system.  I am taking input from several different sources, manipulating the numbers and coming up with a score which is then used to rank the teams.  I don't think this is any better or worse than other systems, it is just a derivative of several including but not limited to the RPI and Pomeroy's Pythagorean ranking.  I may change it again later if I decide it isn't giving me what I want.

The big deltas between this week and last are primarily due to a tweak I made.  I was giving a couple of factors way too much weight, and now I have adjusted that so that all the factors have proper weighting (proper by my own rules).  So here we go:

 

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Last week School This Week Delta Direction
1 North Carolina 1 0 NC
3 Gonzaga 2 1 Arrow_up_medium
2 Pittsburgh 3 -1 Arrow_down_medium
9 Oklahoma 4 5 Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
11 Xavier 5 6 Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
7 Connecticut 6 1 Arrow_up_medium
5 Duke 7 -2 Arrow_down_medium
4 Texas 8 -4 Arrow_down_medium
10 Georgetown 9 1 Arrow_up_medium
13 Ohio State 10 3 Arrow_up_medium
20 Syracuse 11 9 Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
17 UCLA 12 5 Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
6 Louisville 13 -7 Arrow_down_mediumArrow_down_medium
8 Tennessee 14 -6 Arrow_down_mediumArrow_down_medium
15 Notre Dame 15 0 NC
14 Wake Forest 16 -2 Arrow_down_medium
21 Memphis 17 4 Arrow_up_medium
NPR Butler 18 NPR Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
12 Villanova 19 -7 Arrow_down_mediumArrow_down_medium
NPR Missouri 20 NPR Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
23 Baylor 21 2 Arrow_up_medium
18 Arizona State 22 -4 Arrow_down_medium
22 Michigan State 23 -1 Arrow_down_medium
NPR Clemson 24 NPR Arrow_up_medium
NPR Brigham Young 25 NPR Arrow_up_medium










Dropped out: Purdue (16), Kansas (19), Northwestern (24). Davidson (25)
New in ballot:
Butler (18), Missouri (20), Clemson (24), BYU (25)

As for the final Blogpoll, here are the results:

Final Blogpoll Week 3
Avg. Vote Last Week This Week Team (first place votes) Delta Direction
1 1 1 North Carolina (10) 0 NC
3 2 2 Pittsburgh 0 NC
3.11 3 3 Connecticut 0 NC
4.67 5 4 Oklahoma 1 Arrow_up_medium
5.44 6 5 Texas 1 Arrow_up_medium
7.22 4 6 Gonzaga -2 Arrow_down_medium
8.11 10 7 Xavier 3 Arrow_up_medium
9.22 8 8 Louisville 0 NC
9.56 9 9 Duke 0 NC
10.44 12 10 Georgetown 2 Arrow_up_medium
11.56 11 11 Wake Forest 0 NC
12.22 13 12 Notre Dame 1 Arrow_up_medium
14.78 20 13 Ohio State 7 Arrow_up_mediumArrow_up_medium
14.78 15 14 Syracuse 1 Arrow_up_medium
15 14 15 UCLA -1 Arrow_down_medium
16.11 16 16 Villanova 0 NC
17.89 7 17 Tennessee -10 Arrow_down_mediumArrow_down_medium
18.78 17 18 Memphis -1 Arrow_down_medium
19.22 18 19 Purdue -1 Arrow_down_medium
20.33 21 20 Baylor 1 Arrow_up_medium
20.33 22 21 Davidson 1 Arrow_up_medium
20.56 19 22 Arizona State -3 Arrow_down_medium
21.56 24 23 Michigan State 1 Arrow_up_medium
21.78 NPR 24 Clemson NPR Arrow_up_medium
22.22 NPR 25 Missouri NPR Arrow_up_medium












Dropped out of poll: Marquette (25), Kanasas (23)
Entered poll: Clemson (24), Missouri (25)

Your comments are welcome, as always.

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If UT...

was to slip out of the rankings, it would really look bad for the SEC.

Apparently BG had a full day at ESPN, if anyone wants to hear his radio interview with Tirico and Van Pelt you can find it here

by the spork on Dec 17, 2008 6:19 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

There is no putting lipstick on this pig.

The SEC is way down this season, and UT looks no better than a top 15 team to me.

Thanks for the link.

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Truzenzuzex on Dec 17, 2008 11:13 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

UT

Im not sure that they look better than a top 25 team.

DEEETROIT BASKETBALLL!!!

by davw83 on Dec 18, 2008 11:46 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah ...

… I think you could make that case convincingly, to me at least.

A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan

by Truzenzuzex on Dec 18, 2008 12:58 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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