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Jan 18, 2010
college basketball poll on hold

Since there’s so much more data to deal with in college basketball than college football, the directed graphs are much larger, and it takes much more time to make the calculations necessary to generate my poll. Last week, I reached the threshold where it became no longer feasible to run the script on my little laptop. Consequently, the poll will be put on indefinite hold until I can find a more efficient algorithm and/or port the script to a faster language.
Jan 8, 2010
final conference rankings

1 - Southeastern (34.0833333333333)
2 - Big East (36)
3 - Pacific-10 (44.2)
4 - Big 12 (45.6666666666667)
5 - Atlantic Coast (46.25)
6 - Big Ten (49.8181818181818)
7 - FBS Independent (55.3333333333333)
8 - Mountain West (68)
9 - Conference USA (75.25)
10 - Western Athletic (79.6666666666667)
11 - Mid-American (88.8461538461538)
12 - Sun Belt (100.888888888889)
Jan 8, 2010
final college football poll

The bowl games are done, so here we go! Lots of movement from last time. How about those Big Ten teams moving up to the #3 and #4 spots?

1 - Alabama (14-0) (48.5) (1)
2 - Florida (13-1) (45.1875) (4)
3 - Ohio St. (11-2) (44.25) (11)
4 - Iowa (11-2) (44.125) (13)
5 - Cincinnati (12-1) (43.875) (2)
6 - Texas (13-1) (42.375) (3)
7 - Boise St. (14-0) (42.1875) (9)
8 - Virginia Tech (10-3) (41.8125) (7)
9 - Pittsburgh (10-3) (41.25) (12)
10 - TCU (12-1) (40.53125) (8)
11 - Southern California (9-4) (40.0625) (14)
12 - LSU (9-4) (39.8125) (5)
13 - Navy (10-4) (39.1875) (19)
14 - Oregon (10-3) (38.75) (9)
15 - Clemson (9-5) (38.5625) (18)
16 - Connecticut (8-5) (38.5) (22)
17 - Georgia (8-5) (38.125) (24)
18 - Miami (FL) (9-4) (38.0625) (6)
19 - Penn St. (11-2) (38) (NR)
19 - Auburn (8-5) (38) (NR)
21 - Wisconsin (10-3) (37.375) (NR)
22 - Nebraska (10-4) (37) (NR)
23 - West Virginia (9-4) (36.8125) (15)
23 - BYU (11-2) (36.8125) (NR)
23 - Arkansas (8-5) (36.8125) (NR)
dropped out: Arizona, California, Oklahoma St., Georgia Tech, Stanford, North Carolina
Jan 4, 2010
college basketball poll - week 8

1 - Kentucky (15-0) (102.0546875) (2)
2 - Purdue (13-0) (100.65625) (7)
3 - Texas (13-0) (98.2109375) (3)
4 - Kansas St (12-1) (97.59375) (1)
5 - Kansas (13-0) (97.078125) (15)
6 - Wisconsin (12-2) (96.875) (12)
7 - Georgetown (11-1) (96.6875) (5)
8 - Duke (12-1) (96.125) (9)
9 - Syracuse (13-1) (94.90625) (6)
10 - Pittsburgh (12-2) (94.609375) (22)
11 - West Virginia (11-1) (94.28125) (4)
12 - New Mexico (14-1) (93.40625) (13)
13 - UAB (12-2) (92.9921875) (8)
14 - Northern Iowa (12-1) (90.109375) (NR)
15 - Gonzaga (10-3) (89.046875) (NR)
16 - Richmond (11-4) (88.765625) (14)
17 - Temple (11-3) (88.75) (10)
18 - Wake Forest (11-2) (88.59375) (NR)
19 - USC (10-4) (87.43359375) (NR)
20 - Connecticut (10-3) (86.890625) (21)
21 - Villanova (12-1) (86.546875) (11)
22 - Mississippi St (12-2) (86.25) (16)
23 - Notre Dame (12-3) (85.84375) (NR)
24 - UNLV (11-2) (85.48046875) (18)
25 - Missouri (11-3) (85.3125) (NR)
dropped out: Clemson, Butler, Florida St, Mississippi, VA Commonwealth, Illinois
Dec 28, 2009
college basketball poll - week 7

1 - Kansas St (10-1) (89.640625) (1)
2 - Kentucky (13-0) (89.2421875) (3)
3 - Texas (11-0) (85.18359375) (6)
4 - West Virginia (10-0) (84.375) (23)
5 - Georgetown (9-1) (82.578125) (10)
6 - Syracuse (12-0) (82.265625) (9)
7 - Purdue (11-0) (81.07421875) (4)
8 - UAB (11-1) (80.8984375) (12)
9 - Duke (9-1) (80.28125) (2)
10 - Temple (9-2) (78.640625) (5)
11 - Villanova (11-1) (77.890625) (7)
12 - Wisconsin (10-2) (77.609375) (11)
13 - New Mexico (12-1) (76.486328125) (8)
14 - Richmond (9-3) (76.078125) (17)
15 - Kansas (11-0) (75.9375) (NR)
16 - Mississippi St (10-2) (75.7890625) (20)
17 - VA Commonwealth (7-2) (74.546875) (13)
18 - UNLV (11-2) (74.38671875) (NR)
19 - Clemson (11-2) (74.0625) (18)
20 - Florida St (11-2) (73.779296875) (15)
21 - Connecticut (9-2) (73.6171875) (24)
22 - Pittsburgh (10-2) (71.91796875) (25)
23 - Mississippi (10-2) (71.734375) (14)
23 - Illinois (8-4) (71.734375) (19)
25 - Butler (8-4) (71.021484375) (22)
dropped out: South Florida, St John’s
Dec 22, 2009
college basketball poll - week 6

1 - Kansas St (9-1) (81.3828125) (1)
2 - Duke (9-1) (76.140625) (9)
3 - Kentucky (11-0) (75.67578125) (3)
4 - Purdue (10-0) (74.595703125) (2)
5 - Temple (9-2) (73.19921875) (5)
6 - Texas (10-0) (72.580078125) (14)
7 - Villanova (10-1) (71.748046875) (7)
8 - New Mexico (12-0) (71.6923828125) (8)
9 - Syracuse (11-0) (70.8798828125) (6)
10 - Georgetown (8-1) (70.43359375) (4)
11 - Wisconsin (8-2) (67.7890625) (11)
12 - UAB (10-1) (67.71484375) (NR)
13 - VA Commonwealth (7-2) (67.6796875) (17)
14 - Mississippi (10-1) (66.15234375) (13)
15 - Florida St (10-2) (66.0400390625) (NR)
16 - St John’s (9-1) (65.71875) (NR)
17 - Richmond (8-3) (65.2890625) (NR)
18 - Clemson (10-2) (64.69921875) (24)
19 - Illinois (8-3) (64.62890625) (10)
20 - Mississippi St (9-2) (64.615234375) (NR)
21 - South Florida (10-2) (63.98046875) (NR)
22 - Butler (8-3) (63.9228515625) (NR)
23 - West Virginia (8-0) (63.853515625) (12)
24 - Connecticut (7-2) (63.73828125) (18)
25 - Pittsburgh (9-2) (63.408203125) (NR)
dropped out: William & Mary, Texas A&M, Michigan St, Harvard, Missouri St, Gonzaga, Kansas
Dec 14, 2009
college basketball poll - week 5

Lots of movement, which is not surprising this early in the season. Yes, that’s Kansas State in the number one spot, not the Jayhawks.

A found a bug in my script where non-Division I games were getting counted. Massey’s .csv files give these teams ID “0”. It looks like my script had lumped all these team 0’s together and treated them as one, which caused way more connections between teams than there should have been. That’s been fixed.

1 - Kansas St (8-1) (67.3994140625) (7)
2 - Purdue (9-0) (67.076171875) (2)
3 - Kentucky (10-0) (63.4873046875) (9)
4 - Georgetown (8-0) (63.16015625) (NR)
5 - Temple (8-2) (62.3125) (NR)
6 - Syracuse (10-0) (62.1826171875) (3)
7 - Villanova (9-1) (61.70068359375) (4)
8 - New Mexico (10-0) (61.56298828125) (17)
9 - Duke (7-1) (60.814453125) (1)
10 - Illinois (8-2) (59.2353515625) (NR)
11 - Wisconsin (7-2) (58.4384765625) (8)
12 - West Virginia (7-0) (55.572265625) (12)
13 - Mississippi (8-1) (54.3544921875) (15)
14 - Texas (8-0) (54.318359375) (NR)
15 - Kansas (9-0) (54.1826171875) (NR)
16 - St John’s (8-1) (54.146484375) (NR)
17 - VA Commonwealth (6-2) (54.0335693359375) (NR)
18 - Connecticut (6-2) (52.2412109375) (5)
19 - Missouri St (9-0) (52.1416015625) (14)
20 - William & Mary (6-2) (51.7578125) (6)
21 - Gonzaga (7-2) (51.57421875) (20)
22 - Harvard (7-2) (51.4951171875) (18)
23 - Texas A&M (7-2) (51.3603515625) (21)
24 - Clemson (8-2) (51.166015625) (24)
25 - Michigan St (8-2) (50.943359375) (NR)
dropped out: Florida, Washington, Notre Dame, Ohio St, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, Miami FL, North Carolina
Dec 14, 2009
college football poll - week 15

Okay, now we have the final regular season poll. The Army/Navy game didn’t have any effect on the top 10, but the Buckeyes jumped up two slots and Navy jumped a bunch.

1 - Alabama (13-0) (42) (1)
2 - Cincinnati (12-0) (41.59375) (2)
3 - Texas (13-0) (39.25) (3)
4 - Florida (12-1) (39.1875) (4)
5 - LSU (9-3) (37.875) (5)
6 - Miami (FL) (9-3) (37) (6)
7 - Virginia Tech (9-3) (36.96875) (7)
8 - TCU (12-0) (36.75) (8)
9 - Oregon (10-2) (36.5) (9)
9 - Boise St. (13-0) (36.5) (9)
11 - Ohio St. (10-2) (36.140625) (13)
12 - Pittsburgh (9-3) (36.125) (11)
13 - Iowa (10-2) (35.8125) (12)
14 - Southern California (8-4) (35.25) (14)
15 - West Virginia (9-3) (34.875) (15)
15 - Georgia Tech (11-2) (34.875) (15)
17 - Oklahoma St. (9-3) (34.59375) (17)
18 - Clemson (8-5) (34) (18)
19 - Navy (9-4) (33.90625) (NR)
20 - North Carolina (8-4) (33.375) (19)
21 - California (8-4) (33.25) (20)
22 - Connecticut (7-5) (32.984375) (21)
23 - Arizona (8-4) (32.9375) (22)
24 - Georgia (7-5) (32.78125) (23)
25 - Stanford (8-4) (32.5625) (24)
dropped out: Houston
Dec 12, 2009
html disabled in comments

Take that, spammers!
Dec 10, 2009
i jumped the gun

D’oh – the Army/Navy game is this weekend, so the regular college football season is not yet over! I’ll release one more poll, because it could have some effect. For example, Iowa is just a nose above the Buckeyes right now. OSU beat Navy. So if the Midshipmen win (as they likely will), that could bump the Scarlet and Gray up a notch. We shall see!

Oh, and what’s the deal with spammers getting through my Turing test? Argh.

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