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Message: [QUOTE="FireballPhil, post: 4618791, member: 553"] Not gonna get into a pissing match here. I am to old to be petty and get hurt feelings because someone doesn't agree with me. Quite simply I don't care if you agree with me or not. It is entirely up to you to make up your mind. Congrats on standing by your belief. But one last time: your #1 proves exactly what people are trying to tell you. Yes they are going to play multiple teams from other conferences through the rest of the season, and the net will adjust accordingly. However it adjusts from the bias of whoever programmed the net initially. This is the only point everyone is trying to make and you simply chose to overlook it and base the correctness of the net on this imperfection. your #2 is simply restating your #1. Most people agree that until someone comes out and says how the initial rankings are inputted, it makes sense to use these inter-conference games to set a definitive baseline upon which the remainder of the games can be based off of. The NET will then reflect the correct changes based on actual results of the games your correctly said would be played. And finally your #3. I do apologize if anyone gave you the impression that you don't know your stuff, especially me. I understand you have placed-for better lack of a term- your faith in all things NET. Although I and many others respect the NET we also see issues with it that no one has yet answered. The NET is a useful tool, but not the only tool. Setting rankings and thus quadrants based off what appears to be a flawed (again because no one has answered the concerns, if they did it could be more highly valued to all) metric. And further basing seedings and invites based upon this alone- or great majority of the weight from- brings questions. I am curious though to see if a study is done after this season based upon tourney results. Even though it is one and done tourney I am curious to know how the quadrants would be with hindsight. [/QUOTE]

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