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From: zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Invitation for comment
Message-ID: <898@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 00:03:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 00:03:58 1983
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Didja ever notice that when, say, the #3 ranked team beats on the #8 ranked
team, all the polls drop the latter to, oh, about #15 or so? Why is this? I
would think that the latter is SUPPOSED to lose to the former, and that the
loss only strengthens the credibility that one team is better than another.
Why does it necessarily make the latter team worse than other teams ranked
lower than it? The whole thing seems like trying to sort numbers and saying
"3 is before 8, and 3 < 8, so move 8 down some"... I'm sure there are "reasons"
for this behaviour -- I'd like to hear some comments/opinions on it, tho.
-- 

				-Mike

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