# Week 8 FBS: Who remains undefeated?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-8-fbs-who-remains-undefeated/599815>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 16, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-8-fbs-who-remains-undefeated/599815 "2011-10-16T15:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-8-fbs-who-remains-undefeated/599815/21 "2011-10-23T07:14:45Z")

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> [@Mince](#):
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> He didn’t vote on Stanford, so technically that’s 9/10, which ties you.

He didn’t vote for Stanford. See “Final Pre-Games Summary:” above for the votes before the results came in.

I ( **Zeldar** ) voted for 8 but only got 7 right.

Nobody got 8/8 and the 7/7 score was the only one to pick correctly on all votes, even though one team was not picked.

How are you getting 9/10 for my score?

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**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-8-fbs-who-remains-undefeated/599815/22 "2011-10-23T07:17:48Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> He didn’t vote for Stanford. See “Final Pre-Games Summary:” above for the votes before the results came in.
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> I ( **Zeldar** ) voted for 8 but only got 7 right.
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> Nobody got 8/8 and the 7/7 score was the only one to pick correctly on all votes, even though one team was not picked.
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> How are you getting 9/10 for my score?

I guess I misunderstood the scoring. I presumed it would be a “loss” if you didn’t vote for a team to remain unbeaten and they did. I get the scoring now.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-8-fbs-who-remains-undefeated/599815/23 "2011-10-23T07:27:11Z")

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> [@Mince](#):
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> I guess I misunderstood the scoring. I presumed it would be a “loss” if you didn’t vote for a team to remain unbeaten and they did. I get the scoring now.

I do see your point, but since nobody was “perfect” in your sense of the word, I felt the one who got the most correct for the number of teams voted for, should get the nod as “winner.”

I’m all for a more sophisticated scoring method if somebody has one.

This next week ought to be even harder to score! Three of the eight undefeateds are inactive. It may be a year when the BCS has to cope with no undefeateds in the final ranking. We know that either LSU or Bama will be defeated. In two weeks!

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