Pick-a-Fave Round 2 --Top 39 (this gets tough)

I’m assuming that groupings matching a favorite guard like Graham against a favorite big like Withey were made as a final option. Makes no sense to me to have those two favorites of completely different skill sets going up against each other.

Yeah, I’m a “whine & geez”er... don’t like having to choose between a great small and a great big when ideally I’d have them both on my team.

And may I suggest that you develop top 7s, or at least 5+2s, instead of just top 5s?

IMO no college team can truly be great without at least a solid 6th man off the bench, and preferably 7th as well - one big, one small.

I like what you did, Corpus, now that I know. And if you really are looking at who the top fan faves are regardless of position... arguably, based on KU history our favorites are going to be hard working, skilled and effective team players. It would be interesting to see who would comprise such a squad.

It’s too bad the poll system here won’t let us build ranking polls, where we could rank players within the groups, as is done with the Top 10/25 polls. That would help prevent a really popular player from losing out because he was eliminated by a SUPER popular player in a given round. (As an example, I would be amazed if anyone except maybe Mario would beat out FMIII.)That wasn’t an issue in your round 1, of course, but it is a concern in round 2 since only the 10 “chosen ones” proceed past it.

An alternative approach (not using the board’s polling system) for round 2 would be to list the 39 players that received votes in round 1 and have folks post with their top favorites ranked 1-10. Much more grunt data work for you to do, but would definitely capture the top 5 favorites of the voters.

Thanks!