Interesting BHGP community rating distribution for Greg Davis

[hawkfan340]

So over at BlackHeartGoldPants, they are doing this community rating thing after every game where fans can rate position groups and coaches on a 1-10 scale. Then they aggregate & graph the results and talk about them.

Most of ratings are in fairly close agreement (i.e. the peak of the distribution is fairly pronounced). For example this graph for Jake Rudock shows 656 of the 983 (66%) voters gave Jake a 6 or 7 performance on Saturday.

Now, the really interesting one to me was for Greg Davis. See below:

The distribution is almost uniform from [1,7]. I.e. you can find equal numbers of posters that felt GD's performance was anywhere from downright horrible to pretty good and everything in between. Just kind of interesting that fans would have 1) such a wide range of opinion and 2) equal numbers of people supporting each such opinion.

Kind of neat. It will continue to be interesting to see how this transforms over the season or if GD continues to be point of wide disagreement among the fans.

 

[HawkeyeMcNutt]

Very interesting analysis. I like it.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

so... pretty much like last year.

 

[hawkfan340]

so... pretty much like last year.

I don't know. We have no actual data, but anecdotally it seemed like there was agreement on a negative opinion of his performance last year.

Seems like there is either just more fan optimism this year or at least some people liked what they saw on Saturday to some degree.

 

[Hawks19]

A couple of the more influential posters over there are really banging the drum strongly in support of Davis. That's the thing about that place, there are only 3 or 4 people's opinion that really get reflected. Just about everyone will fall in line behind those people, with very few dissenting viewpoints. If you ran the same kind of poll here or at rivals, it would be overwhelmingly negative for Davis.

 

[Sparky]

Nobody has a good idea if the poor play calling is the result of Davis or if it's the result of Ferentz. Fortunately for Davis history says a lot about what he can bring to the table if he's given full reins which I doubt Ferentz allows him to do.

 

[hawkfan340]

A couple of the more influential posters over there are really banging the drum strongly in support of Davis. That's the thing about that place, there are only 3 or 4 people's opinion that really get reflected. Just about everyone will fall in line behind those people, with very few dissenting viewpoints. If you ran the same kind of poll here or at rivals, it would be overwhelmingly negative for Davis.

My perspective is that they have pretty diverse opinions over there among the commentors. And I think this poll represents that.

Also, there were almost 1000 voters (and no where near that many people post over there), which I think is a fairly good sample size. Yes, there may be bias because of the website hosting the voting, but my guess is that there is even more bias on this site and their poll more closely represents Iowa fans as a whole. This is pure speculation though.

I guess the main thing it makes me wonder about is if GD (and KF) have more fan capital than is represented around here.

 

[ShadasRevenge]

A couple of the more influential posters over there are really banging the drum strongly in support of Davis. That's the thing about that place, there are only 3 or 4 people's opinion that really get reflected. Just about everyone will fall in line behind those people, with very few dissenting viewpoints. If you ran the same kind of poll here or at rivals, it would be overwhelmingly negative for Davis.

The exact opposite of this is true.

 

[Eda]

A couple of the more influential posters over there are really banging the drum strongly in support of Davis. That's the thing about that place, there are only 3 or 4 people's opinion that really get reflected. Just about everyone will fall in line behind those people, with very few dissenting viewpoints. If you ran the same kind of poll here or at rivals, it would be overwhelmingly negative for Davis.

I disagree with this thought. I'd think the graph would be pretty similar here. But unless we have a graph/poll it's all just both if our feel/opinion of the atmosphere here.

So agree to disagree?

 

[Hawks19]

My perspective is that they have pretty diverse opinions over there among the commentors. And I think this poll represents that. Also, there were almost 1000 voters (and no where near that many people post over there), which I think is a fairly good sample size. Yes, there may be bias because of the website hosting the voting, but my guess is that there is even more bias on this site and their poll more closely represents Iowa fans as a whole. This is pure speculation though.I guess the main thing it makes me wonder about is if GD (and KF) have more fan capital than is represented around here.

If that's true, then the Iowa football program is in a lot more trouble than I thought. Sad, sad days ahead.

 

[mrolympia]

so... pretty much like last year.

last year it would've been 99.9% ones because they don't have a zero option

 

[OUTofTOWNHAWK]

See Id like to see a graph of what fans think loses Iowa the most games.

 

[Hawks19]

See Id like to see a graph of what fans think loses Iowa the most games.

It's usually because the other team scores more points than we do.

 

[OUTofTOWNHAWK]

It's usually because the other team scores more points than we do.

You better write that down and send it to kirk. Maybe include a picture somehow.

 

[HawkAttack]

so... pretty much like last year.

Last year Davis would have had mostly 0-3s.


EDIT: Just noticed Mr O already pointed this out. Sorry.

 

[PJHawk]

Very interesting analysis. I like it.

It would have been even more interesting if they had included our esteemed AD Garta.