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For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - washingtonismoney - 10-29-2017

Now #18 for who-knows-why reasons: https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/924699308523266048

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - BobK - 10-29-2017

Thankfully voters didn't watch.  Lol



Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - cardcrimson - 10-29-2017

It helps when four teams just ahead of you lose. . . .

Even winning ugly is winning.

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - washingtonismoney - 10-29-2017

Meanwhile, Stanford dropped 3 places in Connelly's S&P+ rankings to #19 and 2 places to #14 in ESPN's FPI.

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - SamAtoms1980 - 10-29-2017

The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.  Those members of the AP poll who watched the game, I don't know what they saw.  If Nall doesn't fumble, we aren't even receiving any votes (yes, credit is due to Harrison "Hodor" Phillips and Peter "the Squid" Kalambayi who made that play).

Meanwhile, Miami had similar trouble with North Carolina and they fell one spot.  It looks like East Coast bias might be real.  Not in terms of the media favoring teams on the East coast, but in terms of the media more closely watching their games.

These voting polls will roll backstage soon enough as the rankings that really matter come out in two days.  Trick or treat.

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - stupac2 - 10-29-2017

(10-29-2017, 12:53 PM)SamAtoms1980 link Wrote:The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.

Well, sure, but the team that demolished ASU and Oregon pretty obviously should be ranked. One game doesn't define the whole season.

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - Goose - 10-29-2017

(10-29-2017, 02:49 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=SamAtoms1980 link=topic=17827.msg209131#msg209131 date=1509306833]The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.

Well, sure, but the team that demolished ASU and Oregon pretty obviously should be ranked. One game doesn't define the whole season.
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+1

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - csfoster - 10-29-2017

Better to be ranked and moving up rather than ranked and moving down any day.  :)

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - SamAtoms1980 - 10-29-2017

(10-29-2017, 02:49 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=SamAtoms1980 link=topic=17827.msg209131#msg209131 date=1509306833]The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.

Well, sure, but the team that demolished ASU and Oregon pretty obviously should be ranked. One game doesn't define the whole season.
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Yea, the team that did the raze job on Oregon belonged in the top 10.  I wasn't trying to say that we should have fallen out of the rankings, but that I didn't understand how we could have beaten Oregon State by one point and then moved up.  I expected us to land in the #23-25 range

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - stupac2 - 10-29-2017

(10-29-2017, 07:16 PM)SamAtoms1980 link Wrote:[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=17827.msg209152#msg209152 date=1509313762]
[quote author=SamAtoms1980 link=topic=17827.msg209131#msg209131 date=1509306833]The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.

Well, sure, but the team that demolished ASU and Oregon pretty obviously should be ranked. One game doesn't define the whole season.
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Yea, the team that did the raze job on Oregon belonged in the top 10.  I wasn't trying to say that we should have fallen out of the rankings, but that I didn't understand how we could have beaten Oregon State by one point and then moved up.  I expected us to land in the #23-25 range
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Eh, that's not how rankings work, really. We won, others lost, so they dropped below us.

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - FarmBoy - 10-29-2017

(10-29-2017, 07:22 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=SamAtoms1980 link=topic=17827.msg209219#msg209219 date=1509329785]
[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=17827.msg209152#msg209152 date=1509313762]
[quote author=SamAtoms1980 link=topic=17827.msg209131#msg209131 date=1509306833]The team that played in Corvallis on Thursday should not be ranked.

Well, sure, but the team that demolished ASU and Oregon pretty obviously should be ranked. One game doesn't define the whole season.
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Yea, the team that did the raze job on Oregon belonged in the top 10.  I wasn't trying to say that we should have fallen out of the rankings, but that I didn't understand how we could have beaten Oregon State by one point and then moved up.  I expected us to land in the #23-25 range
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Eh, that's not how rankings work, really. We won, others lost, so they dropped below us.
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If voters are rationale and have complete information, then perhaps they take into account that Love did not play vs. OSU and anticipating that he'll return, they believe Stanford more resembles the team that played Oregon than the one that played OSU. I don't really believe they have complete data and are rationale, however...

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - BostonCard - 10-29-2017

I think that's giving voters too much credit.  Mostly the move up comes from a) not losing and b) having teams ahead of us lose.  Never mind that the bare win over Oregon State should have made most voters adjust their view of Stanford downward.

BC

Re: For some reason, Stanford moves up in AP rankings - Goose - 10-30-2017

(10-29-2017, 10:19 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:I think that's giving voters too much credit.  Mostly the move up comes from a) not losing and b) having teams ahead of us lose.  Never mind that the bare win over Oregon State should have made most voters adjust their view of Stanford downward.

BC
It seems to me that even voters who are fully aware of how close the result was and how "bad" OSU was pretty much de-rate the final score. Alabama usually has one or more "near-misses" to other SEC teams that don't affect their ranking at all. The close result is treated as an anomaly, especially when the result matches an earlier bias/decision. As long as you win, you will probably get a pass.