The Gory Details Page is Active

One of the more popular pages on the site has been the Gory Details page. That page has a line for each team in NET order that shows all of the publicly available data that is relevant to the selection process.

If you click on a team name, you will get the tournament resume for that team. It includes the data from the Gory Details page, but also the team's results grouped into quadrants and its remaining schedule.

The first in-season bracket projection is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 22.

As always, all constructive feedback is welcome.

The NET makes its season debut

The first NET rankings came out on Monday. You will see a lot of analysis about the first rankings. Sorry, but I have no deep thoughts about early computer rankings except this – there isn’t enough data to draw any conclusions.

We are not even a quarter of the way through the season in terms of the number of games that will be played. Computer data at this time of year has to be taken with a grain of salt. That includes those that, unlike the NET, still use some of last year’s data to bulk things up until we get to far enough along for the season to stand on its own. We are at least a month from that point.

I think you don’t really know what teams are truly made of until they get to conference play. That’s where your opponents know you well, or at least better than most.

I will give you one bit of info that could linger throughout the season. The Big East is having a relatively rough go of things for a major conference. Six of the eleven teams already have three or more non-conference losses. That includes St. John’s, which was a preseason top five team.

That is the most of any major conference, and each of the others has at least five more members. It’s also more than the Atlantic Ten.

The reason that is a problem is that all of those losses belong to teams that make up about 65% of your schedule. Those losses carry though conference play. That can drag everyone down in the rankings as the season progresses. There is no better indicator of how a conference will do in the computer rankings than how it does outside the league. Everyone’s strength of schedule suffers when the league does not do well in non-conference play.

So, have fun with it. There are certainly teams in places in these rankings that will be very different in a month.

Preseason Bracket

Speaking of things that will be very differnt in a month, here is my preseason bracket.

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