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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4080703, member: 1969"]
Will try to explain it later to you today during the Raptors game my friend.   Need to head out.  But I will try it quickly now.  (EDIT - or not so quickly)

You are correct that KP is a possession by possession system, and the NET at least has some power elements to it.  So they are somewhat comparable.  Although in my observations to date the NET has more punitive and rewarding elements like the RPI in terms of how a conference did OOC.

But look at it this way (for KP anyway)
If I am a BIG team and I go 11-9, I am likely beating and losing to teams that have higher KP's, than a team that goes 11-9 in the ACC.   So naturally that BIG team will have a higher KP at the end of the day.   And likely NET.

Of course margins could negate the above... if I am crushing teams in my wins and losing close games, an ACC team at 11-9 can be viewed the same as a BIG team that goes 11-9 under KP.    But generally over a sample of 20 games, the margin factor will even out for most teams such that the record becomes just as good an indicator.

Whether it's FSU or not, 11-9, 10-10 ACC teams will have poor NETS compared to prior years, which most importantly impacts Q1 and Q2 records.    Do I think it's a fair system?  Not really -- its why conferences that have most seeds don't tend to perform any better (by seed) than other conferences.   It actually goes the other way.

Just play around with this forecast tool and see the predicted NET's for the middle team in the top 6 conferences.  You will see the ACC and Pac-12 have the lowest NET's in the middles and the less Q1 games.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://barttorvik.com/net4cast.php?conlimit=ACC[/URL]
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