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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4618264, member: 1969"] The issue this year and last year as well: - Too many bad teams compared to other power conferences - this year it really hurt that Louisville, Florida St, and Syracuse did bad OOC. But it wasn't only them. - Not enough dominant teams getting elite or higher # of Q1 OOC wins. But if we want to run down the metrics: #1. Awful OOC winning % compared to the top 3 conferences, and well behind the Big East, despite having not having a harder SOS. In terms of win% they were not even close to the elite 3 conferences. #2. #6 in OOC quality wins (not even close to the top). Actually only about half of the freaking Pac-12. In fact only 2 of the 9 wins were "elite" q1a wins. (top half Q1 criteria). Well behind those that dominated the top seed lines. OOC Q1 Wins Big 10 - 26 Big 12 - 23 SEC - 20 PAC - 17 Big East - 13 ACC - 9 #3. #5 in OOC Bad losses. Big 12 - 2 Big 10 - 6 Big East -8 SEC - 11 Pac 12 - 17 ACC - 18 Looking at both #2 and #3 together. [B]Big 12 - 23 High Quality OOC Wins, 2 OOC Bad losses Big 10 - 26 vs 6 SEC - 20 vs 11 Big East - 13 vs 8 Pac 12 - 17 vs 17 ACC - 9 vs 18 The system rewards conference OOC - you can argue that it rewards too much. But ACC benefited from the same damn system before because you know why - not because it freaking gamed the NET or the RPI. Because they played better!!![/B] Fact of the matter is the ACC was on par with the PAC 12 and very close to the MWC and not that far ahead of the Conference USA in OOC performance metrics. Those were the peers in OOC performance this year. [B]Its not learning how to play the NET. It's actually winning games, and not losing crappy games. There was actually no way to "RIG" the NET OOC this year such that the ACC would do better on Selection Sunday No mathemetician would be able to find that solution this year because the teams were not ******* good enough. It's not hard.[/B] And its not only just Louisville and Florida St. 6 ACC teams had 2 or more bad losses in OOC. Other than the P12, no other conference had more than 2 teams (there may have been one with 3) ACC was #7 in OOC Net, much closer to the MWC and CUSA in those metrics than the 3 teams that dominated the seed lines. ACC was #6 in OOC RPI [/QUOTE]

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