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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4521574, member: 12088"] The puzzle of NET is how it manages SoS. It includes factors like location, which makes sense, but also winning percentage and score differential, both of which will tend to favor teams with weaker schedules. There’s also an efficiency factor on offense and defense which primarily reflects the team itself and only indirectly speaks to the quality of opponents. Finally, it includes the opponents’ NET ranking, which is the primary way it measures SoS, and the only factor that inhibits teams with cream puff schedules from getting into the higher rankings. In the end, I think NET is a pretty good measure, though not perfect. I think you can see this by the way NET consistently ranks SC above UConn as 1 & 2. This looks pretty reasonable. By contrast, RPI gets this wrong, consistently ranking UConn above SC, I think because it puts too much weight on SoS. This is too jarring a departure from even a cursory eye test assessment of both teams. The weakness of NET is clear from the way it has consistently ranked LSU too high, in my opinion. An extreme cream puff schedule made for lots of lopsided wins and created the appearance of efficiency, and this outweighed any SoS factors. This also departs too far from eye test results. This shows how the NET can be gamed, and we’re left with the current spectacle of pundits either grudgingly giving LSU a 2 seed or reluctantly giving them anything from a 4 or 5 to a 7 or 8 seed. Either result will produce howls from one camp or another. [/QUOTE]

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