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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4499287, member: 12088"] NET reflects indirectly (and imperfectly) a sort of SoS factor in that the NET ratings of opponents is included. But no independent SoS factor is included. This means the NET will tend to be quite inaccurate early on, to the extent that the NET of opponents will not really measure much. But later in the season, it will tend to seem more reasonable. One hopes that by the end of February it has become much more precise. Perhaps the chief distinction to be made between NET and RPI is that RPI is more reasonable early in the season because it includes an independent SoS factor. Of course, SoS measures are also crude in the early season, which is why they aren't used as a ranking tool in the same way. [/QUOTE]