RUChoppin said:

Wins and losses matter based on the strengths of the teams you beat or lost to, not the records of the teams you beat or lost to. That's why RPI isn't a great measurement.

Your raw NET score, in a similar vein, isn't especially meaningful for selection. It's just there to reflect your relative strength related to other programs. Selection is not based on strength, but on what you have accomplished, which is what the quadrants are for.

It's not perfect, no system will be for all teams, but adding in wins and losses to the ranking system would make it worse, not better, imo.

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With RPI it was rare for a team outside the top 50 to get selected (and virtually impossible for midmajors). You could look at it for a quick and dirty picture. NET doesn’t seem to provide that. It cares a ton and punishes heavily for a bad day where a team finds a way to win.

SDSU for example is getting crucified for needing OT vs Air Force. Who cares? They won the game. We lost to Kennesaw. The two things are vastly different. On another day they beat Houston on a neutral floor. We didn’t beat Alabama. They are NET 50. We are NET 72. If they take a loss and we win another game we’d be close to even. There’s no way that should be the case. We’re right where we deserve to be IMO. SDSU should be in the low 30s.

For sorting at the bottom I do agree NET is likely a good deal better. In a pool comparing a collection of teams with bad records, RPI rewards the teams that lost to teams with better records point blank. This renders the bottom half of the pack rankings pretty worthless. My contention is that the systems that prioritize results do a better job at evaluating for all purposes (sorting included in the top 150 or so) which is really what’s most important.

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RuSnp said:

Them getting pt has changed our entire defensive outlook.

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To the eyeball yes. From raw data looking at points scored per possession no.

Which is right?

Open ended question.

Pike is using the data because Martini is out there lately at crunch time.

I dont know what to think.

I do know dortch and grant screw up a lot of switching

Mr Magoo said:

They have NIL up the wazoo, as talented a front line as there is in the country, a much sought after guard from WSU in Rice and they still are barely above average. Woodson does less with more better than almost anyone.

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We have two lottery picks.

MadRU said:

Park

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City

29PAS said:

Trailer

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That’s great!!

bac2therac said:

the rgem and ggem were both less snowy for central jersey to go along with the gfs and nam tragic outputs...more and more of a signal to a sleetfest and freezing rain/rain

with each run the hrrr is slowly cutting back on snowfall amounts and qpf in general

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But the Euro/UK were both better at 12Z and the HRRR decrease was kind of expected as it was a pretty big outlier - it's now fairly similar to the Euro/CMC. The NAM may end up right, but it's still fairly lonely with partial support from the GFS (but it's lower resolution could be messing up those graphics from what I've been told). There's no doubt though that there's been a trend for less precip (so less snow/sleet) SW of NYC and especially SW of about New Brunswick and a trend for more sleet than snow SW of NYC.

It's possible one could see 0.4" QPF in philly as half sleet/half ZR, 0.6" of QPF in NB with 1/4 snow, 1/2 Sleet and 1/4 ZR and 0,8" of QPF in NYC with 1/2 snow and half sleet and little ZR. That's not a prediction, per se, but just showing the trend one is likely to see for less precip and more non-snow as one goes SW from NYC to Philly.

That's one helluva nest. Go Birds!

MadRU said:

Horse

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Trailer

Total domination in the middle of the field

Since 2020, Greg 2; we are 0-13 against ranked opponents, 0-14 if you include the Gator Bowl. Of those, we are 0-9 combined against Michigan Ohio State and Penn State, not too many programs have had wins against them in the years we lost to them. The other losses we had were Indiana in 20, Michigan State in 21, Iowa in 23 and Illinois by 7 this year. We need a win, it’s an embarrassing statistic, but from where we were after Ash, it’s really not that surprising.

Zeller again 4-0

BTW. UNC 9 - Michigan 4 at the half

WhiteBus said:

Agree. Freezing rain is dangerous in many ways. From slip and falls, to accidents to trees/branches taking out electric lines. Nothing positive about freezing.
Passed the frisbee golf course in Fairmont Park. Yes, there were people there playing but the wait to start was just one group. Get away from the computer and get outside. It's a nice winter day!

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Sedgley is about as old as the course at RU - love that place. Playing later today - I try to play 5 days a week even in winter - I hate "exercising" but I don't mind it at all when I get some exercise playing a sport; same for soccer which was cancelled for tomorrow as some of the guys don't enjoy playing in the snow (we did that last Sunday and I had a blast, but there was some whining lol).

Pretty good start I’d say

Caliknight said:

Up quick 2-0. Jungerkes is a stud.

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Kelly. 3-0

Too easy.

holy crap...who is 13? not able to watch with sound as I am watching Pulisic/Milan at same time...

that play was unreal!

rutgersal said:

He left the Bucs only after the Jags whacked their useless GM, Trent Baalke. His about face was completely understandable, because the jags weren’t going to get anyone good with the GM remaining.

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True, but the Bucs felt he would be staying and his turnaround caught them off guard
The different scenario from not wanting to accepting the jag job is understandable when you think about how Coen felt his future would look before and after Baalke was dumped..
But some fans don't see it that way and just feel the coach broke his word by saying he would stay only to leave right after saying it .
Tampa might feel that way too.