Who should be #1 this coming week? (UConn vs Texas)

[visitingcock]

I never understood that logic. Every year, player rosters change, team chemistry changes and the opponent level changes, so should the evaluation of the rankings should also change. Saying an individual champion is the defending champ like in Boxing, Tennis, mixed martial arts is one thing but in team sports from year to year with all the changes, not so logical

Here is the simple logic. If nobody beats them they will repeat. If somebody beats them thy won’t.

Until somebody beats the champ it’s just speculation and algorithms

 

[JellyBean]

I never understood that logic. Every year, player rosters change, team chemistry changes and the opponent level changes, so should the evaluation of the rankings should also change. Saying an individual champion is the defending champ like in Boxing, Tennis, mixed martial arts is one thing but in team sports from year to year with all the changes, not so logical

Me either, but it has been that way for as long as there have been rankings. Some teams always got the benefit of the doubt over a lesser-known team. Some teams could lose 4-6 games and still be ranked over a team that has 1-2 losses. It would all depend on those "quality of wins" or "quality of losses", much like we saw in the College Football Playoff/BCS conversation over the last 20 plus years.

 

[BRS24]

Next discourse will be before the Jan 5 AP poll.