Poll found here

Hey folks,

As seen on /r/CFB, the B1G is discussing a 3 permanent rival rotation for football, with 5-6 teams rotated through the rest of the conference (playing every other conference member every other year). There was gnashing of teeth in that thread about the difficulty of such an arrangement, as it seems to be someone would be upset with the setup, no matter what conclusions they arrived at for matching.

I am curious if that needs to be so. I need your help to get data.

I’ve made a ~5 minute poll regarding B1G conference rivalries and sentiment. From this dataset, I will devise a few gameplay scenarios to determine optimal strategies for each school by different formats, and see if there’s anything common among them that we can predict. Among these are drafting methods, algorithmic solutions, and bidding strategies.

If everyone could fill it out, and share it with friends, I'd really appreciate it.

A little about me - I'm a PhD scientist, and love CFB/college sports. I was an insanely active Redditor on /r/CFB and /r/CollegeBasketball when I was at Michigan State (BS & BA 2015), though with a busier life came less use of Reddit. My preference is to casually comment on things until I find a (rare) project worth high-effort, and then put a lot of time into it. With that in mind, I made a splash some years ago by doing a conference affiliation realignment project, on /r/CFB, trying to predict how conferences would change with money...Few of my predictions were correct, but I learned a lot through it, particularly regarding the certainty of the assumptions I made to begin the project. Although I maintain they were reasonably sound, obviously they were too strong and directed the results in an incorrect direction.

Any suggestions, thoughts, and inputs are welcome in the comments below! I reserve the right to modify the poll questions/format for up to ~24 hours (say, end of Jan 27, 2022) based on suggestions in the comments – I will contact any individuals who give consent (last question) and allow them to re-complete the poll if they desire. I will close the poll on Valentine's Day 2022.

Thanks,
/u/atchemey

This post is adapted from one on /r/TheB1G