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Casey Trauer submitted this query on: June 11, 2009 4:50pm EDT
TITLE BCS poll query
SPORTS American Football
QUERY SELECT dn.first_name, dn.last_name, rankings.issuer, rankings.ranking_value
FROM rankings 
JOIN sub_seasons ss ON rankings.date_coverage_id = ss.id
JOIN teams t ON rankings.participant_id = t.id
JOIN display_names dn ON t.id = dn.entity_id
JOIN document_fixtures df ON rankings.document_fixture_id = df.id 

WHERE ss.sub_season_key = '2008_season_regular'
AND df.fixture_key = 'ranking-bcs'
AND dn.entity_type = 'teams';
DESCRIPTION This query returns all values sent in the BCS poll: Harris rank, USA Today rank, previous rank, computer rating, and BCS rating. Each value gets a separate row, so five rows for each team. You can tweak the query to return only the BCS rating.
DBs TESTED MySQL
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