http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2009/11/30/basketball-what-the-top-25-polls-are-worth/ Fri, 24 May 2013 07:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2009/11/30/basketball-what-the-top-25-polls-are-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-14722 Steve Nguyen Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:43 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/?p=7689#comment-14722 Jeff, you can’t analyze Cal’s poll position simply by considering how it does in games. Everything is relative; you would have to analyze how other teams performed as well (relative to Cal). Polling is a rank ordering. Winning games shouldn’t have to vault a team up the rankings, and vice versa. Performance has to be evaluated relative to how other teams performed too.

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