weinhauers_ghost
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08-22-18 11:57 AM - Post#260609
The NCAA is dropping RPI as its primary tool for evaluating teams in advance of the college tournament. Its new methodology is a proprietary system called NET.
Edited by weinhauers_ghost on 08-22-18 11:57 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Jeff2sf
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08-23-18 10:11 AM - Post#260634
In response to weinhauers_ghost
mike says he's taking the year off on this but doesn't seem to care for this.
The lack of transparency is annoying.
from the ncaa, not mike. Though on the other hand maybe we DO have the right to know why he's taking off.
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weinhauers_ghost
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08-23-18 12:23 PM - Post#260637
In response to Jeff2sf
The NCAA's lack of transparency is a feature, not a bug, as they see it.
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Tiger84
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08-23-18 07:08 PM - Post#260652
In response to weinhauers_ghost
Maybe I'm paranoid, but without a way to see how the sausage was made, there is a distinct chance that this will increase the bias against mid-majors.
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Old Bear
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08-23-18 07:32 PM - Post#260655
In response to Tiger84
Or maybe not .
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Silver Maple
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08-23-18 07:43 PM - Post#260656
In response to Old Bear
You're definitely not paranoid.
However, all of the analytics folks will get right to work reverse engineering this thing, and they'll start constructing an algorithm for it as soon as data becomes available. So the transparency will be short-lived.
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TheLine
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08-24-18 09:05 AM - Post#260659
In response to Tiger84
Knowing how the NCAA makes sausage, this is sure to increase the bias against mid-majors.
Fixed
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TheLine
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NCAA announces new evaluation tool 08-24-18 09:11 AM - Post#260661
In response to TheLine
To be less glib about it, it's not that NET itself is biased. It's that it's going to discourage the majors to schedule against any mid-major that has any chance of winning against them because that seems to be a losing play based on the description provided by NCAA.
The first people to reverse engineer the algorithm will be the schedulers for the majors. They have the most at stake.
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