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HOW TO READ THIS TABLE

Teams are ranked in their order from the Logo (note for mobile users: everywhere you see a "Logo" link, that means that inline flair is shown on old.reddit.com/r/cfb) AP Poll for Week 14. The column to the right of the team name shows the number of points that team received using the AP Poll's Borda count rules. New for the 2023 season, the following two columns show information about each team's previous and upcoming games. The following columns show how many votes for each ranking the team received. The 'U' column shows how many voters left the team unranked (off their ballots entirely). Gridlines are placed every 5 rows and columns for ease of reading. A thick line is placed below the 25th-ranked team to distinguish "ranked" teams above it to "receiving votes" teams below it.

Some cells are shaded to highlight points of interest. The green diagonal highlights how many voters ranked a team exactly where they ended up in the overall poll. For example, Logo Penn State is ranked 10th in this week's poll, and 25 voters placed the Nittany Lions exactly in their 10th spot. Values for which a team received no votes at that rank are shaded in red, while placements chosen by only exactly one voter are highlighted in blue. The most common selection (the mode) for each team is shaded yellow. Finally, since there are very few votes that ever end up near the top-right or bottom-left of the chart, those cells are filled in with black diagonally as much as possible without covering up any nonzero values. This helps naturally guide the eye while viewing the chart and helps locate the most unusual votes. We lightheartedly call these the "Wilner" diagonals.

NOTES FOR THIS WEEK

The upper Wilner diagonal was set by Don Williams, who didn't feel the need to rank Logo Tulane, the only voter to snub the Green Wave. That selection is 9 spots below their consensus rank in the poll. On the other hand, the lower Wilner Diagonal was established by two votes: Wilner himself ranked Logo Tennessee 15th, and Ron Counts ranked Logo Kentucky 22nd. Counts was the only voter to give the Wildcats a nod after their victory over Logo Louisville. If you wanted, you could also count the unique votes for last place, but that depends on how you order the votes. Take your pick of Logo Miami (David Jablonski), Logo North Carolina (Don Williams), or Logo Memphis (Dave Reardon).

The team with the most votes matching their rank is Logo Alabama. 54 voters placed the Crimson Tide in 8th place. On the other hand, the team with the fewest votes matching their rank is Logo Southern Methodist, with only 3 voters (Ron Counts, Zach Klein, and Chad Leistikow) ranking the Mustangs in their 25th spot. Altogether, 595 votes matched the team's rank in the poll. Moreover, 481 votes were off by ±1 rank, 203 were off by ±2 ranks, 98 were off by ±3 ranks, 48 were off by ±4 ranks, and 25 were off by ±5 ranks. The highest-ranked team to be left off a ballot is Logo Tulane, as 1 voter did not have the Green Wave on their ballot. The lowest-ranked team to appear on all 62 ballots was Logo Iowa in 18th. The two closest teams were Logo NC State and Logo Oregon State, who tied for 21st place this week. Conversely, 114 points (1.8 ranks' worth) separate Logo Alabama and Logo Missouri, more than any other teams only one rank apart.

This week, teams in the receiving-votes section received 86 votes (5.5%) for a total of 261 points (1.3%). Logo Tennessee received the highest vote of any team in that area, with Jon Wilner ranking the Volunteers in his 15th slot. 219 distinct team-rank combinations occurred in votes this week, of which 54 were unique. The most common vote was placing Logo Alabama in 8th, cast by 54 voters (87%). The team with the lowest variation in votes was Logo Georgia with a standard deviation of 0.371. On the other hand, nobody could agree on where to put Logo Oregon State. The Beavers had the largest standard deviation of 3.14.

This week, 1 team received their first vote of the season. Welcome to the 2023 AP Poll, Logo Memphis! That brings the total number of teams to receive at least one vote this season up to 73. In addition, 2 teams received a vote this week after receiving none last week, but getting some in earlier weeks. Welcome back to Logo Troy, and Logo Kentucky! Unfortunately, the following 4 teams did not receive any votes this week after getting at least one last week. Depending on your rooting interests, better luck next week or good riddance to Logo Fresno State, Logo UNLV, Logo Texas A&M, and Logo UCLA.

TEAM PROGRESSION WEEK BY WEEK

Now available in regular or dark mode! Some of the bugs have been cleaned up, but please let me know if you find any more. Each team that has received a vote in any week is included, even if they have since fallen out of the receiving-votes section entirely.

BALLOT CHANGES BY VOTER

Now you can quickly compare how each voter's ballot changed this week and since the start of the season! Like the team progression tables, this is a bit wonky, but something is better than nothing. Please let me know what you think and give me any feedback or bug reports you notice.

Also, this made me realize how many repeat and near-repeat names the voters have this year. There are two Adams and a Ms. Adams; two Brians; a Creg and a Greg; two Daves and two Davids; two Emilies; a Jon, two Johns, a Johnny, and two Mr. Johnsons; two Jordans; two Kirks; a Ron and a Don; two Ryans; two Scotts; a Steve, Steven, Stefan, Stephen, and a Mr. Stephenson; two Toms; two Mr. Williams; a Mr. Murphy and a Mr. McMurphy; a Robert and a Bob; three Matts; four Mikes, a Michael, and a partridge in a pear tree.

NEXT PROJECT - TEAM SPECIFIC BALLOT CHANGES

Similar to the section above, this will look at changes in ballots from one week to the next. However, instead of comparing each team for each voter, these tables will consider one team and each row will show how each voter moved them compared to the previous week. This is a rough "it doesn't even work yet" concept, so please provide any ideas you may have about what would be cool to see in it. Should I sort the table by the previous week's ranks, the new ranks, or the change in rank?

And then there's always some other stuff I want to do eventually:

• Compare the changes between teams that played each other in the previous week. E.g. in Week 10, coming into this week, Logo Oklahoma had 1,010 points and Logo Oklahoma State had 77 points, for a combined 1,082. After this week, the Cowboys have 660 points and the Sooners dropped to 547 points, for a combined 1,207. Where did those extra 125 points come from? Which teams were adversely affected by this game that they didn't play? On the other hand, are there any "losing" games, where the combined total of the teams went down after a game between two ranked teams?

• Graphically show which pairs of teams' orderings disagree with the Condorcet criterion. There is some interesting stuff going on this week between the last couple teams in and the last couple team out that would be nice to show visually. I'd be especially interested in situations where there is a head-to-head result, or a Circle of Suck situation where head-to-head consistency is impossible.

TABLE IN CSV FORMAT

Want to have a go at analyzing or visualizing the data on your own? Here is a CSV dump for easy copying:

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3,Washington,1413,0,3,47,9,2,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
4,Florida State,1358,0,0,8,43,9,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
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6,Ohio State,1251,0,0,4,1,20,17,17,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
7,Texas,1205,0,0,0,0,5,20,34,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
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15,Louisville,689,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,2,11,17,13,10,4,0,0,2,0,1,1,0,0,0
16,Notre Dame,592,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,2,14,12,15,11,2,1,1,0,1,0,0,0
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PAST WEEKS

Here are some handy links to previous weeks' posts:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

SPECIAL THANKS

I would like to thank u/bakonydraco for providing the data set that makes this post possible. If you like this table, then you will also like his weekly voter-by-voter ballot breakdown. That post is also great for answering your "Who ranked [team] at [place]?" questions. You can find this week's post here.

I would also like to thank u/BlueSCar, who runs the College Football Data API, which I used to get the game and TV information.

REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK

As always, I am interested in any feedback or suggestions you may have. Ways to improve readability or aesthetics, new ways to analyze the data, or anything else. I have some ideas of my own, but if past seasons are any indication, I probably won't get to them before the season's end. Also, I significantly rewrote the code that generates this chart again this year, so please feel free to let me know about any bugs, typos, grammer errerrs, or general "is that a mistake or on purpose?" sorts of things. Also, if you would like to receive this chart DMed to you as soon as I finish it (usually late evening the night before it goes up on reddit, so not that amazing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), please send me a DM and mention which variety you want (e.g. dark mode) and I will DM it to you until you ask me to stop.

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