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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4602906, member: 1969"] #1. Its not a perfect system. But its better than before as they do try to bring in the inherent additional difficulty of road games vs home games which is the major benefit of the new Quadrant system to me. It also certainly does not favour smaller conferences over power conferences. That notion is absurd. It favours the conferences that do really, really well in OOC. Whether the connectivity issue skews things to much in favour of those who did really well B12, SEC, Big 10 vs the other power conferences could be an issue. Someone raised the issue of more OOC games later in the year. I think that would certainly help. Yes the MWC is getting some more love than normal, but OOC they are not far behind the ACC and P12 the past few years -- pretty close to equal in fact. And they are far ahead of every other conference in terms of OOC. So its not crazy to see that they get treated a bit worse than the ACC and P12, but far better than other mid majors. #2/ I'll address the bolded . Our fate is tied into what each does in the same manner. Its just that Duke plays 20 games against teams we play against, and Clemson plays 20 games against teams we play against... etc. Colgate will play zero or only one game against somebody we play against, so their performance after they play us in OOC (or in conference) doesn't matter much. Maybe in numbers it will make more sense: Syracuse like every ACC team plays 11 OOC and 20 in conference. Those 31 teams have 31 opponents. Out of 961 games ACC 410 (43%) (400 in conference + some OOC teams playing ACC as well) All other Conferences (57%)... and that 57% is split to various degrees 31 different ways. That 43% become by far the biggest part of the pie, so its very important that those ACC teams do well in OOC. The ACC doing poorly OOC means you have weaker opponents metric wise once conference play starts, and then the connectivity of opponents will just make the impact better or worse, depending on where you rank amongst the P6 conferences. Yes, the ACC schedule is not totally balanced, so some teams will be a little less impacted by it than others. #3) I wouldn't be surprised if Q1A or Q1 "Top Half" was not one of the key submetrics. Its not a featured one like Q1, Q2, Q2, Q3. Its identified on Warren Nolan's Team Sheets, and those Team Sheets are meant to mimic what the committee looks at. [/QUOTE]

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