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#1 Jul 03 2004 at 4:58 PM Rating: Decent

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The BCS is running in circles.

Weiberg has said the BCS plans to put greater emphasis on the human polls and eliminate components such as bonus points for quality wins and strength of schedule.

Why did they make the BCS in the first place if they want to eliminate the non-human elemants? Didn't the system work with just the polls back in 1997?

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#2 Jul 03 2004 at 5:03 PM Rating: Decent

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Didn't the system work with just the polls back in 1997?

Nope. The idea was to have a consensus National Champion. The old polls would have split champions often. The BCS is supposed to match the 1 and 2 teams to generate a single champoin.

If the dumb mothers would just go to a four team playoff it would solve all the problems and probably make them even more money.

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#3 Jul 03 2004 at 5:12 PM Rating: Good

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I hate it how people say "the BCS is bad because computers decide the winner, not humans." Well it's not like we have an AI cyborg deciding, it's just a formula devised by a HUMAN. Not to mention the fact that the human polls account for a huge chunk of the formula.

By the same logic those people use, I could say that baseball's batting title is incorrectly rewarded because the batting average is calculated by computers.

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#4 Jul 03 2004 at 5:20 PM Rating: Decent

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The old polls would have split champions often.

I wouldnt consider 4/21 from '77 to '97 "often". By the same logic the 1/6 since inception of the BCS is often.

I guess I probably should have stated my question a little more clearly. I know why they created the BCS an I believe in the goal, but instead of trying the play-off or some other concept, they decide to come almost full circle and put more emphasis on the polls.

So my new question is; Why would you try to fix the new system by using the old system that was deemed unfit?

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#5 Jul 03 2004 at 6:15 PM Rating: Decent

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Why would you try to fix the new system by using the old system that was deemed unfit?

Because the old system would have avoided what happened last year. Closing the barn door after the horse escapes as it were.

And by the way, 1/6 is less than 4/21 so you could argue that it's worked better so far, and not much else. Also, considering there's only been six years it's an insignifgant sample set, it could end up being 1/10000 for all we know.

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