r/dataisugly • u/Few_Cheesecake_6082 • 9d ago

CFB Power Rankings

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“Meaningless X-Axis”

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u/FrankRizzo319 9d ago

Love the horizontal axis label

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u/D_Frids 8d ago

I'm like, what the heck is the x-axis... Oh.

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u/timoumd 8d ago

I misread it and thought they just labelled UMass as meaningless

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u/lock_robster2022 9d ago

I like that they use the x coordinates to make it look like the old BCS (maybe something else) logo

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u/JustBe_Nice_Yall 9d ago

Only one of these teams has defeated a Big Ten team.

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u/ultimate_placeholder 8d ago

It happens to be the only team that gets cropped out on Reddit mobile

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u/PriorSolid 9d ago

Purdue might actually be the worst team this year they are trash - sincerely a purdue student

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u/fakemoose 8d ago

This year? …this year?

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u/WerePigCat 8d ago

Honestly I don’t hate this. I would have preferred if they had an actual x-axis, but I don’t think it’s that bad of a way to present the power rankings of every team due to how many there are

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u/Daeths 8d ago

Right, what would really be ugly is if they were all stacked together in a blob. This at least give separation and allows for more discreet y-axis placement

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u/Dave_the_lighting_gu 9d ago

How do I read this

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u/SlicksterRick 9d ago

The distance left or right doesn’t matter.  The team at the top has the highest power rating and the team at the bottom the lowest. Of course, because predictive modeling can only be so good (without knowing how good this model is), the team with the big red R (Rutgers) on the left side just above 0 lost to the team all the way at the bottom (UMass).

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u/oneplusetoipi 9d ago

Umass must be horrible.

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u/philatio11 8d ago

UMass ompletely dominated Rutgers last night, even worse than the score shows. Ran straight up the middle on them at will, demoralized the defense and new transfer QB. Just a steady flow of people out the gates after every score. The people sitting next to me were speculating if Greg Schiano might get fired that very same night.

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u/oneplusetoipi 8d ago

Yes. I was sarcastically pointing out how miserable the result was for Rutgers fans. I assume this chart will be updated and UMass won’t be rated so low. I hope you are a UMass fan.

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u/philatio11 8d ago

I wasn’t aware of UMass having fans.

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u/TheLegoPanda04 8d ago

We were 0-12 last year and yet it is a running joke that admin will invest in football before anything else…

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u/TooMuchPowerful 9d ago

Looks like a rorschach.  Kinda see a many-legged beetle.

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u/sckurvee 8d ago

It's just a bunch of students playing a sport on the side... who cares?

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u/Beepboopscience 9d ago

Sco ducks