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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4945960, member: 1969"]
Re - Pitt.  I'd rather understand the implications moving forward rather than whining about the  flaws in Individual NET (which there certainly are).   And Pitt is very important to us, because we are relying on 2 quality wins instead of 1.   They are overrated, we are underrated.  Yes?  No?  OK, what does it mean though going forward.

[B]What NET gives you today because of its system flaws relating to margin elements, it will generally taketh at least part of it away because of its same system flaws relating to margin.   This is a good thing for Syracuse, not so good for a team that has benefitted from it like Pitt.  Its easier to offset the system flaws that hurt you for the next 14 games.  Its hard to maintain the system flaws that benefitted you for the past 18 games.  [/B]

The NET is measured at the end of 32 games not 18.   Outlier games now become less relevant by the end (each game goes down from 6% to 3% of your possessions).

When you have been hurt by negative margin elements like Syracuse, if you just win moving forward and avoid blowouts in losses your NET will progress forward.   If we go 8-5 to close, and don't get blown out in 3 of those games NET should move forward because those margin negatives go down in value

Pitt is the opposite, and its much more concerning for them (and us as Syracuse fans)  The impact of its absurdly good play in cupcake games on NET, can only be maintained if they do similar stuff to close the ACC.  They either have to step it up from a W-L perspective or they need to have big blowout wins when they win and only lose close ones.  It was huge that they beat Duke, but our Q1 and Q2 win against Pitt is in serious jeopardy, because of the giveth and taketh away elements of this thing.
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