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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4959326, member: 1969"]
A few more comments on the Big"NET" Gaming and MWC.   My general thought on the NET aspect as discussed above is that its still generally schedule independent since margin expectations become higher against patsies.    I think a lot of people that are posting these tweets don't fully appreciate that point.

So it shouldn't heavily drive things -- that being said to discount this idea you should see other positives in what the B12 compared to others.    These were clear in 2023... in 2024 hardly so - so you can't discount the NET manipulation off the top.   One might be able to argue that its not NET manipulation -- but just that they dominated patsies "better" than other leagues.   Which would still be a bad way to rank them higher.

It was easy to discount that Big 12 gamed the NET last year to get where they were, because they actually performed well in quality games.   This was the data I ran last March.   The data is not as convincing this year.

2023 Numbers
Q1+Q2 Wins (Good Wins) / Q3+q4 losses (bad losses)
Big 12:   30/2  (with 10 teams)
SEC:  31/11 (with 14 teams)
B10:  24/8
BE:  16/8
ACC:   21/18
p12:  18/17
MWC:  20/19

The Big12 was just on another level in 2023.   They clearly earned their status  They averaged 3 quality wins per team, when nobody else reallly got much more than 2...

Next Post - 2024 Numbers.   I'm going to post a separate thread for this.
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