First Net Ranking

[YoDore]

You're gonna love #1

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/47249

 

[Conndog]

Not impressed with LSU’s average opponents NET rank- 311? You’d have to try really hard to schedule teams that bad (then again, maybe not- this happens year after year with LSU)

 

[Bjbod]

With an average opponent NET ranking of 311. Michigan St, Ole Miss, Iowa St and Oklahoma must all use the same scheduling service as well.

 

[Bigboote]

The NET is usually pretty kind to UConn, but I guess LSU figures out a way to game it. With zero wins against q1 or q2 opponents and seven q4, I must admit I’m baffled how the formula produced this result.

 

[Sifaka]

The NET is usually pretty kind to UConn, but I guess LSU figures out a way to game it. With zero wins against q1 or q2 opponents and seven q4, I must admit I’m baffled how the formula produced this result.

This is, after all, the NCAA we have come to admire, respect, and appreciate for its transparency, logic, even-handedness and general competence.

Translation to honest English: What else would we expect from a dirtbag outfit known for being opaque, illogical, biased, and generally as incompetent as a clown car populated by elementary school dropouts who have been imbibing immoderately?

 

[cancontent]

This is, after all, the NCAA we have come to admire, respect, and appreciate for its transparency, logic, even-handedness and general competence.

Translation to honest English: What else would we expect from a dirtbag outfit known for being opaque, illogical, biased, and generally as incompetent as a clown car populated by elementary school dropouts who have been imbibing immoderately?

Stealing this phrase for my next girl's night. 😈🍷

 

[Centerstream]

LSU #1 - Looks like magic to me.

 

[Bigboote]

This is, after all, the NCAA we have come to admire, respect, and appreciate for its transparency, logic, even-handedness and general competence.

Translation to honest English: What else would we expect from a dirtbag outfit known for being opaque, illogical, biased, and generally as incompetent as a clown car populated by elementary school dropouts who have been imbibing immoderately?

You forgot obfuscatory.

Like Can, I like the expression “imbibing immoderately,” and I’ve been known to engage in it. I also drove a couple of clown cars, and when my buddies and I were emerging from one, folks probably did wonder how those clowns got in that Volkswagen.

 

[visitingcock]

You forgot obfuscatory.

Like Can, I like the expression “imbibing immoderately,” and I’ve been known to engage in it. I also drove a couple of clown cars, and when my buddies and I were emerging from one, folks probably did wonder how those clowns got in that Volkswagen.

A smoke filled VW van?

 

[TheFarmFan]

The NET is usually pretty kind to UConn, but I guess LSU figures out a way to game it. With zero wins against q1 or q2 opponents and seven q4, I must admit I’m baffled how the formula produced this result.

Doesn't NET weigh margin of victory fairly heavily? That would go a long ways towards explaining LSU..

 

[Bjbod]

A smoke filled VW van?

Jeff Spicoli works for the NCAA....?

 

[my2cents]

Obviously, you can't take this rating system seriously.

 

[Sifaka]

folks probably did wonder how those clowns got in that Volkswagen.

As my eldest told me, some many decades back, when he was a pre-schooler:

Papá, how do you get six elephants in a VW bug?

Me: ¡No tengo ni idea! ( I've no idea!)

Three in the front seat and Three in the back. 😜

 

[Bigboote]

A smoke filled VW van?

A Bug, not always smoke filled.

 

[Bigboote]

Doesn't NET weigh margin of victory fairly heavily? That would go a long ways towards explaining LSU..

Ah, that would explain the large number of games decided by 80+ points, as pointed out in another thread.

 

[JellyBean]

You're gonna love #1

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/47249

 

[NycUcWbbFan]

The NET is usually pretty kind to UConn, but I guess LSU figures out a way to game it. With zero wins against q1 or q2 opponents and seven q4, I must admit I’m baffled how the formula produced this result.

The NET will give wacky results &1 &2 for the early season, and for teams like LSU &3 prior to conference play.

• It might be useful to think of NET as “raw” KenPom / Torvik (women’s KenPom).

&1 Unlike other Pythagorean Expectation methods like KenPom and Torvik, the NET does not use any preseason data for early season ratings. (In comparison, only after 13 games does Torvik have no preseason adjustment).

&2 And, it seems that, unlike other Pythagorean Expectation methods, the NET only has a weak — if at all — normalization adjustment to the average D1 team (accounting for venue or strength of schedule). This inference is based on the NET’s Quad system (a sorting tool) that gives the Selection Committee the manual means to achieve the normalization adjustment (venue, strength of schedule) that, say Torvik, does by equilibrium convergence.

&3 For teams like LSU that supplement tough conference games with cupcake OOC games, such scheduling is rational in gaming the Selection Committee’s process. In addition to avoiding avoidable losses, a prolonged cupcake schedule gives LSU the concentrated bandwidth for their player development program (similar to UConn during conference play).

 

[southie]

The NET is usually pretty kind to UConn, but I guess LSU figures out a way to game it. With zero wins against q1 or q2 opponents and seven q4, I must admit I’m baffled how the formula produced this result.

Mulkey figured it out like 2 years ago at least that margin of victory is a big factor in NET. The committee "punished" LSU like 3-4 spots in the national seedings; but, I don't think she cares all that much if it's moving them down from a 1 to a 2-seed, or a 2 to a 3-seed, especially when the two regional sites are kind of neutral.