Mizzou stays at No. 5 in BlogPoll

A lot of "Mizzou at No. 3/4" sentiment across the blogosphere falls by the wayside, as Mizzou stays at No. 5...

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And this week's Mizzou distribution

Available here:
http://mgoblog.com/blogpoll/team-view.php?week=4&team=27&db=fb

The artist formerly known as SMQ becomes the low voter at No. 10. Mizzou’s two biggest naysayers to this point, Saurian Sagacity and Frank McGrath, both bump Mizzou up to No. 9. The majority put Mizzou at No. 4, with the highest votes coming from a collection of seven voters who put MU at No. 2.

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 3:15 PM CDT reply actions

At least we dont have the outlier at 15 or 18 or whatever it was

starting to tighten up through the middle…I imagine it will do that some more after this week as well

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by The Beef on Sep 17, 2008 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions

SMQ's poll

I can see reasons for 5 of the teams he has above us – from a strictly resume point of view. Afterall, Missouri has only played one tough team – Illinois – and they’re not exactly helping our case right now.

USC – Domination of a good, but not great, tOSU team
ECU – beat 2 top-20 teams
‘Bama – beat a top 10 team (well, top-15 in his poll)
South Florida – ok, they beat Kansas, but didn’t do much else
Wisky – beat Fresno

But, Florida hasn’t done anything other than be from the SEC
Georgia moved up 13 spots for beating a 1-2 South Carolina?
Vandy hasn’t done anything other than beat South Carolina (and play close games against Miami2 and Rice)
BYU has beaten no-one tougher than Nevada.

It certainly appears that if you beat an SEC team – regardless of how shitty they might be – you must be great (well, assuming you ARE an SEC team also). It doesn’t matter how close your games against normal teams are. Your resume is set if you beat an SEC team.

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by Andy--01 on Sep 17, 2008 4:42 PM CDT up reply actions

That's the logical fallacy of early resume balloting

If you try to avoid the “which team do I think is better” mentality by using a resume, then you fall into the trap of asking “which team do I think is better” when you’re determining the value of wins.

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 5:34 PM CDT up reply actions