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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 9, 2020 16:39:00 GMT -5
All the polls will be a mess and not representative of each team's "true strength". Will the decisions made by the various conferences really muck up the rankings? The regional biases will be felt even more this year than any previous years. The AVCA polls would be unimaginably weird. Conjecturing, what will the playing schedules do to the RPI and PABLO? Anyone? Anyone? The Bofa on the Sofa?
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Post by cindra on Jul 9, 2020 16:41:35 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it.
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 9, 2020 16:51:08 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. Will we have a tournament then? If we do, how would the bracket be determined? Darts?
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Post by Not Me on Jul 9, 2020 18:03:17 GMT -5
Let’s get to a pre season before we worry about a tournament.
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Post by n00b on Jul 9, 2020 18:10:06 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. Polls are the easy part. They always operate under assumptions that certain teams are better than anyway. Objective computer rankings are what is going to be impossible to do.
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Post by trollhunter on Jul 9, 2020 21:18:47 GMT -5
All the polls will be a mess and not representative of each team's "true strength". Will the decisions made by the various conferences really muck up the rankings? The regional biases will be felt even more this year than any previous years. The AVCA polls would be unimaginably weird. Conjecturing, what will the playing schedules do to the RPI and PABLO? Anyone? Anyone? The Bofa on the Sofa? SOS will be closer to .500 for everyone. Exactly .500 for conference-only schedules (unless unbalanced). So W/L record will be at a premium for RPI when considering At-Large. Could see many new 2 bid leagues if they both have good records. Much of the other criteria will be neutered. Little head-to-head, few common opponents, weird significant wins, etc. The teams that can play more non-conference matches (against decent opponents) will have a huge advantage - in that they have more chance to improve SOS, significant wins, common opponents. B1G might only get 3 teams in if truly playing conference only.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Jul 10, 2020 2:48:21 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. Will we have a tournament then? If we do, how would the bracket be determined? Darts? Limit it to 32 teams, seeded regionally (East, West, North, South).
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Post by rogero1 on Jul 12, 2020 6:55:55 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. There will be polls because VT arm chair coaches need something to post. No polls, no VT.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Jul 12, 2020 7:41:20 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. Of course there will. If they have a pre season poll without any matches, why would they not have a poll with teams actually playing? You don’t think the AVCA likes seeing their name in newspapers, press releases and on TV?
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Post by hammer on Jul 12, 2020 10:55:50 GMT -5
Steamrolling opponents will be more important this year. Also, the eye test will be YUGE!
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Post by eazy on Jul 12, 2020 12:32:25 GMT -5
Steamrolling opponents will be more important this year. Also, the eye test will be YUGE! I think pre-season rankings will be on of the most important factors. With so few matches, every single one gains more importance. In order for the match to be a good representation of quality, both teams would have to be healthy. I would guess a lot of players will end up quarantined during chunks of the season and if they are important contributors those results might be considered a "wash." Teams you think will be good at the beginning of the season will have a big advantage.
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Post by Riviera Minestrone on Jul 12, 2020 12:49:10 GMT -5
There will be no polls. Book it. There will be polls because VT arm chair coaches need something to post. No polls, no VT. I know this was partly in jest/tongue-in-cheek. Even so, one of the great fallacies of those who 'live' here is that VT has anything to do with reality...and vice-versa!
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Post by hammer on Jul 12, 2020 13:58:36 GMT -5
Steamrolling opponents will be more important this year. Also, the eye test will be YUGE! I think pre-season rankings will be on of the most important factors. With so few matches, every single one gains more importance. In order for the match to be a good representation of quality, both teams would have to be healthy. I would guess a lot of players will end up quarantined during chunks of the season and if they are important contributors those results might be considered a "wash." Teams you think will be good at the beginning of the season will have a big advantage. If we have season, I expect to be deploying this early and often: *
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Post by stevehorn on Jul 12, 2020 14:05:48 GMT -5
I could see a couple of alternatives if most conferences play a conference only schedule or a very limited number of OOC games. One is a somewhat normal tournament with the number of slots for each conference based on their number of teams in the 2019 tournament or something similar. Another thought is that they expand the tournament so that basically all D1 teams (or nearly all) are in the tournament.
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Post by trojansc on Jul 12, 2020 15:16:40 GMT -5
I think pre-season rankings will be on of the most important factors. With so few matches, every single one gains more importance. In order for the match to be a good representation of quality, both teams would have to be healthy. I would guess a lot of players will end up quarantined during chunks of the season and if they are important contributors those results might be considered a "wash." Teams you think will be good at the beginning of the season will have a big advantage. If we have season, I expect to be deploying this early and often: *I wish we would have kept a list of all the matches that have received your world-famous asteriks!
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