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[QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 5016317, member: 559"]
I use this site as my bible:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2024/[/URL]

This is where the predictive-based vs. results-based differentiation is laid out. NET is predictive in that it relies on advanced analytics including offensive and defensive efficiency ratings as keys to its data model - all assumed since the exact algorithms are secret. Based on those data elements it predicts how the team will perform vis-a-vis every other D1 team in future matchups. Yes, results are a part of it as the efficiency metrics are based on games that have been played. It goes a step further however in distilling factors other than what happens on an average possession. It doesn;t matter if a team is up 20 or down 20, it doesn't matter it the game result has already been decided or if we are entering the sixth overtime. It simply considers each possession in a vacuum and evalutes based on that possession and projects how the team will perform based on those data points. The Quad system just stratifies those rankings to provide a snapshot of a team's resume, but a Q1 vs, a Q4 win has very little impact on the actual number. Yes, the committee will evaluate those things, but this is why you seem teams that beat up on low level programs en up so highly regarded in the NET.

RPI is much less complex. It primarily looks at your record, your opponents' record and youe opponents' opponents; record. Second iteration factored in coefficients for home and away. But essentially if you beat a good team by 25 or by 2 there is no difference.
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