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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3060908, member: 1220"] The WCBB landscape has changed in the last few years. There is certainly much more parity now. We can see that in respect to the up and down movement in the various quadrants of the ranked teams. There are more teams than ever from even the next lower quadrant that are capable on a given day to beat a team at the next upper one. In respect to the teams in the same quadrant the odds of a team losing is much higher. No team plays their A game all the time. When they do not and the opposition plays their A game the number of teams that are capable of beating each other increases. Teams that play in conferences that have more teams capable of beating them if they are not on their A game will naturally have more losses. The B10 or Baylor's conference has almost no teams that realistically provide any threat to Baylor. The same is true for UConn. Now the ACC has a number of teams that are capable of beating their top teams on given days. So does the Pac 12. The Big 12 only has Maryland highly ranked and then their is a big drop off to a lower tier. The SEC has Miss St and then again a drop off to the next tier. When teams play a schedule with a lesser number of potential threats their odds of being caught on a bad day are diminished. Generally speaking the greatest threat would be to teams in the same tier, but the next tier down would also be a threat on the right day. The only conferences that have both multiple same top tier and second tier teams are the ACC and Pac 12. What many Uconn posters do not understand is that their team would not only be threatened by those top tier teams but also the teams in the next tier it they were not playing their A or B games and the other teams where playing their A game. Every team has games when they are off. If you happen to be playing a team who is no threat you get away with it. Your odds of getting Knocked off by teams your are better than increases. Benefit of the doubt wins tend to decrease under those circumstances. This years Uconn team would have far more losses in the Pac 12 and ACC than some of their fans would wish to believe. Especially if they faced multiple back to back threats on the same weekend. [/QUOTE]

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