While qb is hampered by a lack of national knowledge that is associated with college football and basketball (coming soon - The Sporting News Quiz Bowl Preview (main feature article "Power Tossups - Changing the Game and Lives Forever")), one can do one's best to make educated guesses. I think that it's a safe bet that 50 million Frenchmen will probably produce a relevant poll when all the votes are tallied up - it's not perfect, but it's the best there is. After a few tournaments, poll results get closer and closer to a mean - Midwest voters change their tune when seeing how Iowa does on the national stage: if Iowa gets taken behind the woodshed by Florida (or vice versa), then possible comparisons can be made. I think that the best idea, however, might be to add separate 'regional polls', the way college soccer, volleyball, and D3 football do things: while there's a separate national poll, a high concentration of competition seems to validate more focused ones. Choosing, however, to rank all of one type of school, especially if you haven't seen all of them play, to right some specific bias seems sorta foolish and whiney (I'm going to vote for all tech schools (or liberal arts colleges) because question bias hurts them too). While certain questions are popular to ask, there should not exist a specific handicap for schools that don't do well on them. There isn't a correction in college basketball polls to correct for the three-point shot - people know the specifics and try to take advantage of them.
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