« Reply #85 on: January 24, 2025, 06:17:42 PM »
IMHO there was one major problem with incorporating computer rankings.
- The impetus for incorporating them was to include an objective, metric-based system that wasn't influenced by the subjective "eye test" and simple "# of losses" biases that the pollsters had.
- The impetus for changing / tweaking / meddling with them every year is that they didn't agree with the subjective "eye test" and simple "# of losses" biases that the pollsters had, so the computers must therefore be "wrong".
The system was ALWAYS subjective. It was ALWAYS a beauty pageant.
So when some unthinking, unfeeling computer that can't recognize "true" beauty starts coming up with different answers than the beauty pageant judges, it must be excluded.
That's why it was so stupid. I'm not sure why they even bothered. They had the 2 human polls "outnumber" the computers and STILL couldn't handle the objectivity. Just asinine.
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