Since making sure diverse viewpoints are incorporated is important to making wisdom-of-crowds work, would it be difficult to weight votes according to geographic regions? If you get too many votes from Denver, weight them in such a way to make their contribution equal to other regions. Maybe even control for teams’ national popularity but that’s probably going too far.

I setup my code to only match teams who are within 250 points of each other. I didn’t design a nice way to handle things if the randomizer couldn’t find another team within 250 points. I guess I’ll have to fix that.

Now, the Ravens and Broncos are both more than 250 points away from the next closest team. I didn’t think it would be possible for teams to get voted that far apart. But it looks like Bronco fans must have been trying hard to vote down the Ravens? I’m going to look at my voting log to see if I can figure out how the Ravens (and Seahawks) got voted down so far.