MaroonMage

Hey everyone! Sorry for being silent the first half of this season...real life got in the way of football polling. But I'm back, and I've made some changes to my algorithm from last year. The overview/highlights:

• Fully computer poll, based primarily on the ranking of your opponents and secondarily how much your margin of victory/defeat was
• The full season is re-run each week with the current week's rankings. So if you beat a top-10 team in Week 1, but later in the season that top-10 team isn't ranked, then that win doesn't benefit your current ranking as much as it originally did
• Poll is agnostic towards conference, pre-season rankings, weekly AP polls, etc. There aren't any name recognition bumps here, it's purely based on resume
• The number in parenthesis after the team's name are the behind-the-scenes points that determines the ranking (on a scale from 1 to 134), so you can get an idea of how closely some teams are ranked to each other (an how much stronger Texas is than the next team)

1. Texas (1) | 6 - 0 | LW: 2 (+1)
2. Oregon (11.79) | 6 - 0 | LW: 3 (+1)
3. BYU (13.85) | 6 - 0 | LW: 6 (+3)
4. Ohio State (14.85) | 5 - 1 | LW: 1 (-3)
5. Indiana (15.21) | 6 - 0 | LW: 5 ( - )
6. Penn State (16.25) | 6 - 0 | LW: 4 (-2)
7. Iowa State (17.42) | 6 - 0 | LW: 9 (+2)
8. Miami (17.69) | 6 - 0 | LW: 8 ( - )
9. Alabama (18.09) | 5 - 1 | LW: 7 (-2)
10. Army (21.81) | 6 - 0 | LW: 11 (+1)
11. Notre Dame (23.17) | 5 - 1 | LW: 16 (+5)
12. Navy (23.17) | 5 - 0 | LW: 10 (-2)
13. Pittsburgh (23.88) | 6 - 0 | LW: 13 ( - )
14. Boise State (26.03) | 5 - 1 | LW: 17 (+3)
15. Texas A&M (27.32) | 5 - 1 | LW: 15 ( - )
16. Georgia (28.7) | 5 - 1 | LW: 12 (-4)
17. Kansas State (28.76) | 5 - 1 | LW: 18 (+1)
18. SMU (28.87) | 5 - 1 | LW: 19 (+1)
19. Clemson (30.12) | 5 - 1 | LW: 20 (+1)
20. James Madison (30.21) | 5 - 1 | LW: 33 (+13)
21. Washington State (31.03) | 5 - 1 | LW: 21 ( - )
22. Texas Tech (31.81) | 5 - 1 | LW: 24 (+2)
23. Missouri (32.18) | 5 - 1 | LW: 26 (+3)
24. Tennessee (33.28) | 5 - 1 | LW: 25 (+1)
25. Nebraska (34.16) | 5 - 1 | LW: 22 (-3)

But they didn't say that though?

They pointed out those countries also have jails/prisons that detain people against their will. That isn't the same as saying the systems are identical.

It's my wife's birthday this weekend so we're going out with a bunch of friends. This is extra special because we scored a babysitter for our one-year-old, and we haven't really been out together much since he's been born. We're gonna go hard.

That, and Helldivers II, if the servers will let me in.

...though sources say that even before Majors’ conviction, the studio was making moves to minimize the character after Quantumania underperformed, grossing $476 million

Jonathan Majors-related stuff aside, this sentence makes me shake my head.

Why does it seem like Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from box office results? Quantumania isn't well received, and instead of assuming it's because of the bad script or bad story or rushed CGI, their impulse is to retool their entire franchise to minimize a character? Especially a character who people were generally into (at that time, at least...again, Majors stuff aside).

People disliked Quantamania not because of Kang, people disliked it because it wasn't a good movie. Maybe if you tie good stories and good filmmaking to your multi-billion dollar franchise and stop plopping out half thought out turds, then people will go see your movie.

Nice to see that what should have been (in my opinion) the four playoff teams are the top four in our poll. I am curious what the poll would look like now after championship week is done.

This week's ballot. Computer poll, resume-based. The top two are basically interchangeable, then there's a huge drop after No 7 Alabama I'm surprised that Texas jumped Florida State, but that may change during championship week.

1. Washington | 12 - 0 | LW: 1 ( - )
2. Michigan | 12 - 0 | LW: 2 ( - )
3. Georgia | 12 - 0 | LW: 4 (+1)
4. Texas | 11 - 1 | LW: 5 (+1)
5. Florida State | 12 - 0 | LW: 6 (+1)
6. Ohio State | 11 - 1 | LW: 3 (-3)
7. Alabama | 11 - 1 | LW: 7 ( - )
8. Oregon | 11 - 1 | LW: 9 (+1)
9. Liberty | 12 - 0 | LW: 8 (-1)
10. Oklahoma | 10 - 2 | LW: 12 (+2)
11. Penn State | 10 - 2 | LW: 10 (-1)
12. James Madison | 11 - 1 | LW: 15 (+3)
13. Ole Miss | 10 - 2 | LW: 13 ( - )
14. Iowa | 10 - 2 | LW: 16 (+2)
15. Missouri | 10 - 2 | LW: 14 (-1)
16. Tulane | 11 - 1 | LW: 18 (+2)
17. LSU | 9 - 3 | LW: 17 ( - )
18. Louisville | 10 - 2 | LW: 11 (-7)
19. Toledo | 11 - 1 | LW: 19 ( - )
20. Troy | 10 - 2 | LW: 20 ( - )
21. Notre Dame | 9 - 3 | LW: 22 (+1)
22. NC State | 9 - 3 | LW: 26 (+4)
23. Oklahoma State | 9 - 3 | LW: 25 (+2)
24. Arizona | 9 - 3 | LW: 24 ( - )
25. Kansas State | 8 - 4 | LW: 21 (-4)

26. Utah | 8 - 4 | LW: 29 (+3)
27. Clemson | 8 - 4 | LW: 30 (+3)
28. SMU | 10 - 2 | LW: 35 (+7)
29. Oregon State | 8 - 4 | LW: 27 (-2)
30. Kansas | 8 - 4 | LW: 31 (+1)
31. Memphis | 9 - 3 | LW: 32 (+1)
32. Miami (OH) | 10 - 2 | LW: 34 (+2)
33. Tennessee | 8 - 4 | LW: 33 ( - )
34. UNLV | 9 - 3 | LW: 23 (-11)
35. North Carolina | 8 - 4 | LW: 28 (-7)

I wish they had left the head football coach's name blank, that way they could just keep giving it to each new hire and the joke could continue.

That sounds terrible. I hope you are doing ok now.

Paying them with an education is a good start, but it's a pittance compared to the amount of money they are bringing in for other people. Arguing that their education is the only compensation they should be getting is akin to saying "we don't need to pay the staff at our restaurant because we give them a free lunch during their shift."

I don't know what the answer is, but continuing to just offer them a scholarship while the adults in charge make money off their labor definitely isn't it.

I think the rule is worded really badly in a way that makes it more confusing that it needs to be.

As for the rule itself, my table usually hand waves it and lets you cast whatever you want with your bonus action and action, provided you have the slots to do it. We haven't had any issues with that feeling game breaking for us yet.

Which rules about bonus action spells are you referring to?

Cool insight - thanks!