Here's a quick example that makes the benefit of my method plain to see.
On Dec 3 the College football rankings came out. You can see all the votes here:
https://collegepolltracker.com/footb...d/2023/week-15
35 voters placed FSU above Texas.
27 voters placed Texas above FSU.
Yet FSU is ranked 4th and Texas is 3rd.
Couple of reasons for this. The 5th-6th place teams got between FSU and Texas. This is commonly known as spoiling. My system controls for that by eliminating spoilers in the early rounds. That way we're only comparing the relevant teams to each other.
Also, they assign points and rank the teams based on their score. It's called the the Borda system. It's completely arbitrary as you can see. My system doesn't make up scores.
The votes are the scores. Just look at the votes!
The majority of the voters said Texas is worse than FSU. The results should reflect that.
I'm meeting with a programmer this week and we're going to get this started.
Last edited by wheelflush; 12-11-2023 at 03:52 AM.