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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 5595669, member: 2133"] You do a lot of good here, patiently explaining the systems, but IMO, you're screaming into the void for the most vocal posters. These threads pop up every season and a lot of the same people post in them: [I]why is Team A ranked here and not there when Team B is ranked this way[/I]. [I]This is bullshit. And it would be a lot easier if there were no nuance. [/I] Of course it would be great if there was no nuance. Over what? the last two decades? these ranking algorithms (and I mean NET, KP, Torvik, Evan Miya, etc.) have shown themselves to be the best solutions to the problem of sorting out 360+ D1 college basketball teams who play different schedules and opponents at different times of the season. They aren't perfect, and there will always be weird results that don't match perfectly to what was expected based on the rankings. This isn't baseball with 30 teams playing 162 games against each other (nearly 5,000 total games) over 6 months to sort out 12 for a month of playoffs. And people still complain about baseball playoff seeding. If the solutions are so easy, as one poster commented, then they should have at it and show their work. Back test it and show how the ranking systems were the worst and their system worked so much better. That's how this works. Build a better mousetrap. For me, the rankings are a general guide. Nothing more and nothing less. They reflect a moment in time and then adjust with new data. They do a solid job of sorting good teams from not so good teams and they're not really used to decide anything until Selection Sunday. I understand this is a thread about preseason rankings, which sure, they're worthless, but they're also not really used for anything other than getting some people on the internet upset. [/QUOTE]

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