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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5596139, member: 1969"]
I don't think there will ever be a system that we can come up with that will not have some ne off exceptions or strange looking teams -- margin is a a necessary demon of sorts as part of the element.    But the impact of NET on scheduling is troubling, and the impact of those games is problematic.   The only good part is that it still comes down to generally your W and L's, although it seems this year the SEC is getting aided by the NET mechanisms and the B12 is getting hurt by the NET mechanisms... so the SEC could have a few teams that get in that don't deserve it  (last year they may have deserved the 14, but if they sniff 9 or 10 this year its a problem).

If you follow my other thread "Tracking the ACC and other conferecnes" , the negative impact of Q4 games on the system really comes through.

SEC has propped itself up on the back of Q4 games this year to the point of being ranked #1 in Conference NET.   But it has the worst record in quality games amongst the 4 conferences as well.

I do that thread for 2 reasons
1) To see how the ACC is doing relatively, which impacts us.  And the ACC is competitive this year with the other 3, so if Syracuse does well in conference it will not hit the wall that some teams did in 2023 and 2024 when the ACC was really bad.

2) And also tracking who is the best in W/L in quality games, and who is best in Margin.   The belief I had before last year was they generally correlate, but I have seen the B12 prop itself up on Q4 crap games last year.   This year it was the SEC who did it.   And the B12 is hurting itself by doing "relatively" poorer in Q4 games.

Every plays tonnes of Q4 games, but the SEC just has a knack for ramping up on them this year,   Last year it was the B12.
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