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HOW TO READ THIS TABLE

Teams are ranked in their order from the AP Poll for the current week. 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. The following columns show how many votes for each ranking the team received. The column shows how many voters left the team off their ballots entirely. Gridlines are placed every 5 lines 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, Arkansas Arkansas is ranked 10th in this week's poll, and 10 voters placed the Razorbacks 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

This week the, upper Wilner Diagonal was set by Brenna Greene's omission of logo Virginia, the only voter to place the Cavaliers lower than 12th, and a whopping 20 spots below their composite rank of 6th. Two people also left Texas logo The University of the Sunburnt Cow (the real USC) off their ballots, which were 19 spots below the Negative-SPF-Bovines' composite rank. The next-highest ranked team to not sweep all ballots was logo Illinois at 16th. The lower Wilner Diagonal was set by Sam Connon, who put logo Kansas State 22nd. Percy Allen was also seemingly trying to take this honor when he put logo Arizona State 8th. Nobody else placed the Sun Devils higher than 17th, and they ended up at 25th on the composite. Moreover, this particular vote appears to not be a mixup with logo Arizona, since Allen has the Wildcats in his 6th spot.

165 votes were cast for teams outside the Top 25, totaling 586 points. 343 votes matched their the team's rank in the poll. The most-matched team was top-ranked logo Purdue with 40 first-place votes. Meanwhile, the least-matched team this time was logo Marquette, who received only 2 votes for 24th place. Moreover, 756 votes were within ± 1 rank, 1019 votes were within ± 2 ranks, 1162 were within ± 3 ranks, 1253 were within ± 4 ranks, 1304 were within ± 5 ranks, and 1358 votes were within ± 10 ranks. Note that this does not count a 25th-place vote for a team in 27th place as being within 2 ranks. The smallest mode this week belongs to logo Gonzaga, who received 8 votes each for 11th and 13th places. Moreover, they received exactly 7 votes each for 4 different ranks, so the voter base has approximately a uniform distribution of opinions about where the Bulldogs belong between 8th and 15th places.

42 teams received at least one vote this week: Purdue Connecticut Houston Kansas Arizona Virginia Texas Tennessee Alabama Arkansas Gonzaga Baylor UCLA Duke Mississippi State Illinois Wisconsin Indiana Kentucky TCU Virginia Tech Miami Auburn Marquette Arizona State Maryland West Virginia Xavier Charleston New Mexico Memphis North Carolina Ohio State Iowa State Iowa San Diego State Texas Tech Utah State Michigan State USC Kansas State St. Mary's

TABLE IN CSV FORMAT

Want to have a go at analyzing this data on your own? Here's a CSV dump for easy copy-pasting.

Rank,Team,Points,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,U
1,Purdue,1502,40,19,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
2,Connecticut,1482,21,37,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
3,Houston,1374,0,5,38,10,5,0,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
4,Kansas,1290,0,0,12,17,16,11,2,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
5,Arizona,1269,0,0,5,18,16,9,9,3,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
6,Virginia,1195,0,0,0,13,10,16,11,5,2,2,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
7,Texas,1064,0,0,1,2,3,11,13,9,8,3,2,3,1,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2
8,Tennessee,1024,0,0,0,0,4,4,6,7,13,12,4,6,3,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
9,Alabama,1021,0,0,0,0,2,3,6,11,10,15,7,2,4,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
10,Arkansas,1004,0,0,0,0,4,2,9,7,9,10,6,6,3,4,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
11,Gonzaga,895,0,0,0,0,1,2,1,7,7,7,8,7,8,6,4,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0
12,Baylor,873,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,4,8,10,12,13,4,2,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
13,UCLA,871,0,0,0,1,0,2,2,2,2,3,11,14,11,11,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0
14,Duke,819,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,4,1,7,8,12,21,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
15,Mississippi State,623,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,5,1,2,3,19,9,7,7,3,1,0,0,1,2,0,0
16,Illinois,528,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4,2,9,12,10,10,1,3,4,4,0,1,0,1
17,Wisconsin,432,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,5,6,7,8,12,9,3,5,1,1,0,3
18,Indiana,408,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,4,6,9,9,6,10,4,2,2,0,3,5
19,Kentucky,370,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,5,7,9,4,4,8,5,4,0,0,3,11
20,TCU,358,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,9,7,3,9,5,6,4,1,2,1,11
21,Virginia Tech,297,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,4,3,5,6,2,10,4,10,6,6,3
22,Miami,208,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,4,1,2,3,6,2,9,5,4,6,18
23,Auburn,118,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,1,2,2,6,1,6,5,1,35
24,Marquette,116,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,6,1,3,3,8,2,2,35
25,Arizona State,98,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,1,1,3,2,2,4,4,40
26,Maryland,78,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,1,2,0,3,4,2,5,41
27,West Virginia,74,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,0,4,1,4,6,3,40
28,Xavier,71,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,4,0,4,3,2,3,43
29,Charleston,68,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,4,2,3,9,38
30,New Mexico,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,3,1,1,0,4,2,0,48
31,Memphis,59,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,2,1,2,2,5,1,46
32,North Carolina,36,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,2,1,4,4,48
33,Ohio State,33,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,2,3,51
34,Iowa State,26,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,2,0,1,2,1,54
35,Iowa,21,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,57
36,San Diego State,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,3,1,55
37,Texas Tech,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,59
38,Utah State,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,2,2,56
39,Michigan State,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,58
40,USC,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,59
41,Kansas State,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,59
42,St. Mary's,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,60

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 here.

NEXT WEEK

Just a heads-up for those who go out of their way to find this post each week: This post will be delayed several days next week due to a lot of IRL stuff I need to do in addition to Christmas and possible bad weather. If I haven't posted it by Friday morning, then I just will put both weeks' data whenever the next post is ready.

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