[Hoot Gibson]

My advice is to be content with no more than six panel members that are reliable. 15 people is too many for any committee. You will spend all of your time PM'ing people to remind them that their votes are past due. If you find six members who take their role seriously, then the result will be better than a big, unwieldy committee and a small committee will give you a lot less headaches.

I am no BGP fan, but their system of ranking teams is sound. The committee takes time to hammer out a consensus by discussing the members' votes and the owner of the website retains veto power over the final numbers. If all the committee does is tally votes of committee members, then the result will be no better than the AP polls. It is just too time consuming for 15 people to hammer out a real consensus of rankings for all five classes.