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Message: [QUOTE="FireballPhil, post: 4992151, member: 553"] You misunderstand. Or are ignoring the obvious. Net, or any ranking is 100% affected by early rankings or biases. Who determines what quad teams start in? A game on Dec 22 can be a quad one vs quad 3. Why? Who determined in December that say NC is a quad one in Dec and their opponent, say Seton Hall is a quad three? The built in bias did that. Now we have late February and we are looking at a net all jacked up because the quads were not set correctly in December. Not all teams in quad one should have them. Not all quad three teams should be quad three, some should probably be at least a two. Even within the quad there are issues. Should a team really be 73rd when all metrics appear and show they should be 56th? Every single metric is set by preseason bias. Every metric tries to iron out its flaws through the season. None are perfect, none will ever truly be. Even come November, what information do they use to run the net? Preseason tournaments? If that was the case why isn't the ACC as a conference and thus the teams in it rated higher than the Big 12, since it went 9-3 against him? If the results of the tournaments were held against them, you would never get marquee match-ups because why join a tournament for if you lose you are going to be deemed starting in Q3 and now have a massive hill to climb? And again, how does Vegas set the odds? Who is to say at the start of the year that Kansas should be favored by 15 over Arkansas State? Bias has a huge impact on initial seedings which carries over throughout the year. The goal is to level out and diminish that impact, but the system, as designed, is to flawed to do that. [/QUOTE]

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