red sox 777 posted...
it's obvious now that Chrono Trigger is the strongest game
You said that and voted otherwise, which crosses the line into blatant contradiction. Up until now your votes have been justifiable, using torturous twists of logic, but this is now a clear contradiction. The sole criterion for these rankings is strength. And you just said CT is the strongest game.
Damnit, I was all ready to just ignore everything else that was said for the rest of this topic, but of course you would be able to get through to me. No, it's not blatant contradiction. From what I see, CT appears to be the strongest, but from what I can quantify...If it were just about that, then regardless of strength of schedule, my preseason #1 would stay #1 on my ballot until it lost. Now, for this particular contest that's a moot point because my preseason #1 lost rather badly in Week 1, but, well, college football season is starting, and that provides a much better example because I fully expect that my preseason #1 will end up sliding down my ballot long before they lose (unless, of course, they too end up losing in Week 1--that's always the danger you get when you're facing an SEC team in your season opener.) Actually, that's a bit of a departure from last year--last year, I had the conventional choice at #1 preseason (Alabama) but went into the season fully expecting that my Week 1 ballot would see Boise State, facing a quality opponent in their opener as they often do (pretty much a necessity when playing in a weak conference), rise from the #2 spot to #1. And this year I have them #1 on my preseason rankings. And presuming that they can beat Georgia, they'll probably stay there for at least a few weeks...but eventually, some team from the SEC or Big 12 or Pac-12 will pass them, because that's just what teams from the big conferences do.
nintendogirl1 posted...
Hey Tsunami, do you not expect your number 2 game to beat your number 17 game? Isn't that the entire purpose of ordering the games? So that they predict future outcomes? Why should the #2 game go up to #1, for beating another game you've already decided it was stronger than, by 2 votes, when the number 2 game has already lost to the #1 game head-to-head (59.18%-40.82%).
When you answer those questions without contradictions, I'll consider your vote legitimate as opposed to bullish and provocative.
Not necessarily. Usually, yes, that would be the expectation, but at times there are "upsets" (by ranking) that are easy to see coming from a mile away. Both of Mega Man 2's losses quickly come to mind--both times, MM2 was ranked, and both times, it lost to an unranked game, but neither loss was even remotely surprising.
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