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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4985218, member: 6535"]
It seems like the way to game NET is to play teams ranked 100-135 on the road and blow them out. You grab a Q2 win and run up the margin. Then just load up bottom of the basket Q4 home games and run them out of the gym.

Like beating #135 on the road is Q2 and so is beating #31 at home. That's wild. Meanwhile, if you play team 240 or lower, it doesn't matter if its home or away.

Of course, you also need the opponents you schedule to stay healthy and finish where they're supposed to, so trying to pick the 100-135th teams is going to involve a lot of luck. Scheduling cupcakes at home and smoking them is the way to go.

Then given the way it works, each game is sort of zero-sum because efficiency is so key. So having all of your conference opponents juice up their NET ranking is key. Then you lock it in and nobody can take it from your conference. You [I]especially[/I] want the bottom of your conference to have a juiced up rating, because upsets happen and you don't want them messing up everyone's score. Also when teams get better as the year goes on, they can only take from conference opponents and it weakens the whole conference.

It's like the non-conference schedule is a game of hungry hungry hippos, and whichever conferences get the most marbles are basically locked into having good NET rankings. Then each conference resets its own game of hungry hungry hippos, with schools fighting over the marbles their conference won in the non-conference.
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