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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3430889, member: 1220"] The Utah coach has said that she tries to get better teams but it's hard to get a team to fl into Utah. The Arizona coaches have mirrored that as well. Sometimes there is a double standard where as reputation will get you a pass for a poor out of conference record. If you went by Baylors out of conference record, except for their one or two games against top ranked team their ranking would totally suck as well. My point is that a team that plays a team ranked a hundred points lower than them has little chance to lose. So why is a victory over a higher-ranked, but still a team you can beat easily any more challenging than one that is a cupcake? You play a team ranked a hundred points lower than you and beat them in overtime and the other team beats a team ranked 50 points lower than first teams opponent by 50 points and the first team's victory is valued much more. I advocate eliminating any team that is more than 150 points ( an arbitrary number ) lower than yourself from the equation unless you lose. This would eliminate cupcake wins as well as not allowing those games to unrealistically pull down a stronger teams rating. I mean the entire purpose is to gauge a team's strength removed from their won-loss record. Isn't it. [/QUOTE]