Why didn't Weird Al win?

Didn't Weird Al get like double the votes and points than Breaking Benjamin. Why isn't Weird Al getting the first bid? -- Guest, The Daily Jolt

• Across both surveys the support was decidedly for music.
• The musical genre with the most votes was rock.
• SUNY Potsdam is trying to do a comedy show (Lewis Black). Rather than possibly compete for their attendance, the board felt it would be better to follow the data and cover a different market.

For reference here are the original survey results.

For the record, there were 99 comedy acts and 187 musical acts, a ratio of slightly less than 0.53. Applying that ratio to the results presented before yields the following results for comedy:

Act                 Raw Votes     Score
!!BLANK VOTE!!      834.75        3910.87
WEIRD AL YANKOVIC   96.99         703.31
BOB SAGET           91.69         675.75
DAVE ATTELL         67.31         436.72
STEPHEN LYNCH       59.89         421.35
COLIN MOCHRIE       56.18         400.68
ANDY DICK           49.82         309.52
JIM GAFFIGAN        38.16         287.79
CHARLIE MURPHY      36.57         246.98
NORM  MC DONALD     40.28         215.18

"So if you weren't going to do a comedy show regardless of how many votes any act received, why would you even offer it as a choice in your survey?" -- Anonymous, 8:17 AM

Yes, that exactly why on the survey with the acts on it we asked this:
"Based on the acts you selected above, would you rather see music or comedy?
Music 320
Comedy 105"

Yes, we neglected to post that in the actual survey results when we put them up. Sorry about that, we've since put that information up (even though it was in the results linked off the page). Sorry about that.