I thought you thought MOV was irrelevant?
I kind of disagree yes. At 17-2 Drake is +1.0 WAB which means that roughly 40 teams would be expected to be 17-2 or better against that schedule.
I think it should be irrelevant, but since NET says it’s not, I’m pointing out that that shouldn’t be the reason their numbers are low in this case. NW is in the NET top 50 with several close calls against bad teams.
The bottom line is if what Chop was saying that the purpose of NET is to serve as a sorting tool, it’s failing in Drake’s case. 2-0 vs Q1 and 1-1 vs Q2 should be a very solid profile with only one Q3 blemish. For a 2 loss mid-major that should translate into solid positioning but the computers don’t like Drake for some reason. That was my point. The outputs seem less and less consistent each year to me.
Regarding WAB - yes, 41 seems way more reasonable and much more aligned with RPI’s output of 35 than NET’s output of 64.
