jncuse
I brought the Cocaine to the White House
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I keep seeing scoring margin mentioned, but here is a quote from the NCAA.com dated Feb 24, 2024:
"With the changes announced in May 2020, the NET will no longer use winning percentage, adjusted winning percentage and scoring margin. What am I missing?
Do preseason ranking affect the end of season NET rankings?
NET highly correlates with KenPom. Its not line for line, but teams are very close to each other. So it's margin, with IMO NET valuing road a little bit more (especially blowouts)
Regarding pre-season rankings - they don't impact either one by March 15 (or really January 15). In the first third of the season or so, preseason predictions impact KP - he needs some preseason stuff to make it work after a few games. And he keeps it in there for the first third of the season or so drawing the weights down.
NET is all in season data - which is why they have to wait some 5 or so games before it is published. Otherwise the data could not be connected.