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Message: [QUOTE="VAHuskyFan, post: 4217457, member: 1585"] Agree with just about all of this. Obviously who you play and SOS matters. That part of the NET is fine. No one is suggesting a win against the #350 team at home should be treated the same as a win against #6 on the road. The issue is how much you weight the fact of a win or loss vs. margin of victory (or loss). I don’t even have a problem including margin and efficiency stats in the calculus to be honest. You just need to value and reward binary outcomes over margins and other metrics. My point is that when the primary NCAA-created metric has Houston as the #4 team in the nation despite being 0-3 in Quad 1 games — and Providence as the #28 team despite being 6-2 in Quad 1 games — then you have designed a shoddy metric that is clearly not valuing outcomes enough. (Both teams are 7-1 in Quad 2 games.) Your point about schedule strength being different only highlights how off of the mark the NET rankings are. Providence has a better record against a tougher SOS. And yet NET says that warrants a 7 seed vs a 1 for Houston. The reason the NET is spitting out such foolishness is that it is underweighting outcomes and overweighting margin of victory/loss. Again, the NCAA can keep margin as part of the equation, they just need to dial it way (way) back from wherever they have it set currently. [/QUOTE]