Some early season tracking of the ACC vs the other "P5" conferences.
If you want to see some rationale for this, the why, the importance of doing well in Q4 games, whatever, it might be covered here at some point, but you can read my first few posts in last year's thread linked below.
I'll provide some more context behind the tracking (See Post #2 and #4 - I will try to keep that as the extent of my "theory posts" on this topic. See post #5 for what I will try to limit this thread to.
I have created a spreadsheet with various links, data pulls, that make it fairly easy to track - I just need to update the scores. I will be updating about 5 various tables as the season progresses related to OOC win%, margin , record against top 6 conferences, % of games by quad, and the summary table below.
Here are the initial results through the end of last night. Difficulty is...
It's been a good start for the ACC so far, but in a very small sample.
(Note - For difficulty below, the higher the number the easier the schedule - most are in the same range, except for the B12 who has played less bottom feeders)
In terms of NET impact so far it would go.
1. SEC
2. ACC
3. B10
4. B12
5. BE
B12 margin of 18.6 is a bit understated because they have played the toughest schedule of the bunch. But they would still be 4th.
Not tracking "quality" and "head to head" matches yet which matter too. Too small a sample.
In last year's thread, I seem to have something that would have been up to the end of the first weekend, so I'll compare the two after the games tomorrow.
This was the final tally when I stopped tracking around December 20th last year. So about 85% of the total OOC games.
On similar schedule difficulties we were comfortably in 5th place in win% and margin. The SEC was absolutely dominant last year, and we were bad. Let's hope things change this year.
