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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5200623, member: 1969"] As to our fate, this as well as any pre-season ranking is totally meaningless... now more than ever. That being said, as crazy as it sounds, these pre-season numbers are quite meaningful for Vegas and gamblers as they will heavily impact lines for the first 3 to 4 games of the season. I'm sure some are already heavily scouring the list for what they believe are wrong. Either Vegas uses a very similar approach as KP, or piggyback KP, but the lines for the opening games will almost all come very close to how they are ranked in KP (and at all points of regular season). The pre-season weights will have heavy impacts on your KP for the first 3-4 games, until it starts to decline and then fully run off by game 10. I have no clue how you can very accurately measure teams in the current NCAA Basketball world at the start of the season. But I guess some attempt has to be made. [/QUOTE]