WAB (Wins Above Bubble)

[Leebo]

I thought WAB was a Torvik thing, not NET.

 

[auror]

I thought WAB was a Torvik thing, not NET.

It was popularized by a dude named Seth Burns, and Torvik incorporated it into his site a couple years back using his own model as the underlying team ratings (Burns was using KenPom I believe). The NCAA adopted it officially when they made a switch up of some of the other metrics on the site before last season. Sagarin retired, they added Torvik's T-Rank, then added WAB but derived from the NET to make it 3 predictive and 3 resume metrics on the sheets.

 

[Hogoff]

I don’t understand how you can have a tenth of a win but oh well

Shot in the dark…maybe some of the wins were against “above bubble” teams that weren’t the entire season.

 

[navery12]

I don’t understand how you can have a tenth of a win but oh well

For the same reason as if you have a 60% chance to win 3 games your expected record is 1.8-1.2 and not 3-0