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Biased ESPN Polls: Gotta Love `Em!

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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I really enjoy the ESPN Poll questions where you know there responses, by state, will be biased. For example, the current poll here:

ESPN Poll: Which Team Will Win The World Series

has the following results:

Massachusetts: 87% believe Red Sox will win WS.
Arizona: 51% believe Diamondbacks will win WS.
Ohio: 70% believe will win WS; and
Colorado: 77% believe Rockies will win WS.

But I enjoy looking at it from the opposite side of the coin, e.g., 13% of Massachusetts voters believe the Red Sox will not win the WS. Kinda of similar to, this year the Red Sox went 96-66 for a .593 winning percentage or, conversely, they had a .407 losing percentage.

/s/ JackWESQ

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  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    I don't believe any of those teams will win the World Series. And I will be right for 75% of them
    Tom
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Their polls also said the '05 USC football team was the second best ever.

    The same one that lost to UT at the Rose Bowl image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • stitzenstitzen Posts: 1,771


    << <i>Their polls also said the '05 USC football team was the second best ever. >>



    Only team that was better than the 05 USC team was the 01 Miami Hurricanes team...damn that team was absolutely loaded.

    Don't worry stownie, no UT texas team will ever be in that discussion of best teams ever.
  • bigfischebigfische Posts: 2,252 ✭✭
    I seriouosly wonder how you come to your conclusions. I have concerns about you, and you being able to get through life. I suggest staying in your moms basement for as long as possible.
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  • Bottom9thBottom9th Posts: 2,695 ✭✭
    ESPN Biased???? Imagine that!!image
  • TreetopTreetop Posts: 1,474 ✭
    Their polls also said the '05 USC football team was the second best ever.

    Texas was the better prepared team, no doubt about it, but we play more than one game and USC in 2005 was one of the top teams ever assembled.

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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Their polls also said the '05 USC football team was the second best ever. >>



    Only team that was better than the 05 USC team was the 01 Miami Hurricanes team...damn that team was absolutely loaded.

    Don't worry stownie, no UT texas team will ever be in that discussion of best teams ever. >>



    Are you attempting to revise history or something? They didn't even win the National Championship that year...

    Oh, that's right, it was a better UT team that beat USC in their own house! So that means, using your logic, the '05 UT team was the second best team ever.

    Speaking of how my college fared, how did yours do?

    It's not like you flunked out of Modesto Community College... Or did you?
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
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