AVCA Women's Volleyball Top 25 Rankings/Discussion

Started by WLCALUM83, September 17, 2009, 04:32:07 PM

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Pre-season D3 Top 25 Poll is now out:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-8-20-15/

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Week #1 Top 25 Poll is now out:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-8-15/

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Week #2 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-15-15/

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Week #3 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-22-15/

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Week 4 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-9-29-15/

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Week 5 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-10-6-15/

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Week 6 Top 25 poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-10-13-15/

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Week 7 top 25 poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-10-20-15/

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Week 8 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-10-27-15/


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Week 9 Top 25 Poll:

www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-11-3-15/

jeffjo

Well... Week 10:

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-three-women/poll-11-10-15/

I'm just wondering: What justification does AVCA use for "fudging" their rankings? What I mean is, only 37 of their 63 voters actually turned in a ballot this week. They ranked the teams based on those ballots, and added 26 "ghost" ballots filled in according to that ranking. The actual poll, without the ghost ballots, was:

1   Washington-St. Louis (24)   905
2   Emory (1)               861
3   Juniata (9)            860
4   Calvin (3)               827
5   Christopher Newport      765
6   Wittenberg            757
7   Claremont-Mudd-Scripps      652
8   Colorado College         627
9   Cal Lutheran            604
10   Hope               584
11   Wisconsin-Whitewater      580
12   Southwestern (Texas)      502
13   Carthage               462
14   Texas-Dallas            427
15   Wisconsin-Stevens Point      390
16   Eastern               351
17   Elmhurst               291
18   Clarkson               267
19   Wisconsin-Oshkosh         140
20   La Verne               135
21   Gustavus Adolphus         123
22   Chicago               120
23   Illinois Wesleyan         106
24   MIT                  82
25   Carnegie-Mellon         76

The actual poll was a lot closer than what they published. For example, Emory garnered only 1 more point than Juniata, not the 27 that the published poll shows. And Carnegie-Mellon barely edged out Hendrix (72) for the last spot.

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Tournament Upset Alert:

Bethel-MN takes out #10 (and defending champ) Hope (3-0)!

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Joining Hendrix/Berry in progress:  (Match is tied at 1 set apiece as I post).

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It'll be a Hendrix/Emory Regional final tomorrow:  The Warriors took the 5th set.