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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3352040, member: 730"] Fans, for the most part, measure their own team on their best while they measure other teams by their worst. ([I]except some UConn fans who measure their team against perfection[/I] :rolleyes: ). IMO there is a great deal of subjectivity in polls while the RPI is far too focused on W's & L's to be of much use in ranking relative performance. I understand what you are saying but look at the bolded sentence. You are right that a team is better than their worst game but they are worse than their best game. All we can say is that their true value lies between the two extremes. Most poll voters don't see many actual games and it's likely they base their opinions on wins and losses with some adjustment based on who they beat or lost to. But there are bad wins and good losses and neither the majority of pollsters nor the RPI makes any allowance for that. Now UConn is my team so I'll use them. In the 2014 season UConn was the preseason No 1 and lost to Stanford in their 2nd game on 11-17. They lost at Maples, by 2 pts, in OT. As of that date S Car had one game, a 9 pt win at home to U of S Cal. ([I]USC vs USC[/I]) :confused:. Given the perceived strength of the 2 opponents and your argument many would say that an OT loss at Stanford was better than a 9 pt home win over USC and yet the voters made your team No 1, and the RPI penalized UConn for their loss. Your team beat Duke by 1 pt in December while UConn beat Duke by 31 in the same month but the voters only saw that UConn lost a game and RPI saw no difference in the 2 wins over Duke. I don't remember how S Car fans saw the rankings but I'll guess they thought they deserved their No 1. A couple of them posted here that year and vigorously supported their ranking and predicted a Gamecock win in January. We all found out the truth of the better team in that game and it proved itself in the NCAA's. In my perfect world of wcbb the top teams would play a dozen games among each other in the regular season and we the fans would have many days of great basketball like we had yesterday. [/QUOTE]

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