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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 4527420, member: 7874"] There is one pollster that matters, the Division I Women's Basketball Championship Sport Committee. They choose the best 32 teams selected on an at-large basis. Then there is their task (poll?) of placing teams in bracket slots. Everything else is background noise. Like this post. ;):) AP and coaches polls are a farce. They have not seen all of the teams play. At best they use box scores (stats) for the unseen teams. At worst they use opinions, not unlike most everyone on this board. The computer based polls see the stats (quantitative data) for all of teams' games but have no grasp of the human aspects of team play (qualitative data). Plus humans and their opinions construct these computer systems. It is all imperfect but we like bitch about the polls and computer systems. We like to correct their ratings with our far more accurate opinions. It is fun. [/QUOTE]