sorry boys i posted this over on holleywood3's site as well. Apparently that is not good ! my bad
Fred your the only guy on the top 10 group i am aware of. u said u were, trust me it is a feather in ones cap i think you have tremendous knowledge of the cis! so i asked.
It just seemed a little unusal to drop UNB a spot because UPEI put up a fight!? and who is to say Calgary didnt. U of A statistician stats are not reliable!
All games in Alberta's building, UNB goes back and forth....that is a huge factor. so my question is if UNB sweeps the AUS Huskies........what can we expect to see with the top 10 this week. Are wins and losses in a series the only consideration or do you factor in shots on goal, game summaries etc. Just curious! As i have always preferred Holly"s top 35 because it factors in wins and losses and who played who given their position in league standing. Anyways i thought this was a legit question. Mike and I
I try to look at every possible variable and stat, including game summaries (particularly shots, who is on the road, penalties, etc.), with an admitted "conference bias" based on teams' performances at Nationals or in exhibition games out of conference (which are almost always in the fall, so as the season goes on that means less). My methodology is I guess similar to Holly's, but I don't do the A-B-C-D thing and I have other modifiers.
In fewer words, every time I vote I pretend Nationals is next week and try to determine/guess how each team would do.
Basically every voter has their own secret sauce (and some appear to only look at a team's record and the standings). We're not told by the CIS "how" to vote. I know Bruce Hallihan from the Daily Gleaner has a similar methodology to mine, but we don't compare notes very often, and not before voting.
Voters don't see each other's votes. We're all emailed the same basic stats and it is up to each voter to look for game summaries, etc.
The voting closes at 5:00 today, to be announced tomorrow, so the last two UNB games at UPEI and Saturday vs. SMU would "count" whereas all three Alberta-Sask games count.
The final poll is Saturday after the OUA championship is decided at the Queen's Cup (and the UNB-SMU series will be finished by Thursday at the latest). If UNB was to sweep SMU it might enhance their chances at taking #1 away from Alberta, but I'd hate to have to put money on it.