WBB: Landmark Conference

[Patrick Coleman]

Saratoga you said it perfectly on the men's side that the ncaa needs to use some common sense when selecting teams. For instance Susquehanna women have 4 losses two to the number 2 team in the country and two by a total of 7 pts they beat Gettysburg that has 6 losses but they are ahead of them in the NPI. I hope they look at the full picture and not by just the NPI #. NO WAY A TEAM WITH 10 LOSSES SHOULD BE IN OVER A TEAM WITH 4 LOSSES IN MY BOOKS

They will only look at the NPI number. That's what it's for.

[scottiedawg]

If Susquehanna misses it will be because they booked the 119th best NonConference schedule knowing full well the bottom of their conference is terrible and they were going to have EIGHT games from their conference they just can't count.

Playing one NonConf team outside the top 200 and one outside the top 300 is a killer.

I think Susquehanna is a better basketball team than their NPI resume.

But their own NonConf scheduling did them no favors.

If they had played PSU-Abington twice instead of Muhlenberg and Eastern they would be far ahead of UWRF.

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[Augie2020]

If Susquehanna misses it will be because they booked the 119th best NonConference schedule knowing full well the bottom of their conference is terrible and they were going to have EIGHT games from their conference they just can't count.

Playing one NonConf team outside the top 200 and one outside the top 300 is a killer.

I think Susquehanna is a better basketball team than their NPI resume.

But their own NonConf scheduling did them no favors.

If they had played PSU-Abington twice instead of Muhlenberg and Eastern they would be far ahead of UWRF.

No doubt ,totally agree  with you but when you see Gettysburg a team with 6 losses and Susquehanna with 4 losses by the way Susquehanna beat Gettysburg h2h I just think you need some human input involved also not just the computer. Just watching the game for over 40 + years I personally always liked the human involvement and not the computer telling us who should be in. But I'm just another fan. Hopefully we will never see a team that is say 15-10 in the playoffs in d3 over a 23-2 team. We are losing common sense. Maybe all divison should use the NET then instead of d1,d2 using NET and D3 using NPI. But I totally get what you are saying scottiedawg.

[scottiedawg]

The tough part is it's easy to ad hoc identify the obvious "misses" of a system like NPI. But being able to do that does not mean a human is better. The system objectively ranks 413 teams over thousands of games and the value of that is much greater than some group of humans overriding it subjectively, even in situations where the entire nation would agree.

[Augie2020]

Well the human was great before NPI . All I'm saying is let's have some human input . The EYE NEVER LIES.

[saratoga]

Kind of a relative statement as the eye sometimes only sees what it wants to see. 

Per Ryan's mock bracket, should the Lady Royals win the first weekend they'd be off to JHU.
Goldfarb is a very drab middle school gym & that whole area is sketchy at best.

I pray he's wrong.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Kind of a relative statement as the eye sometimes only sees what it wants to see. 

Per Ryan's mock bracket, should the Lady Royals win the first weekend they'd be off to JHU.
Goldfarb is a very drab middle school gym & that whole area is sketchy at best.

I pray he's wrong.

If you think the JHU neighborhood is sketchy, can I introduce you to "literally anywhere else in Baltimore?"

[saratoga]

Sure.
I'll take Harbor East.
That's it.
As a lifelong Orioles fan that visits the Charm City several times a year, I'm well aware of the issues.

[Great Day to be a Royal]

Kind of a relative statement as the eye sometimes only sees what it wants to see. 

Per Ryan's mock bracket, should the Lady Royals win the first weekend they'd be off to JHU.
Goldfarb is a very drab middle school gym & that whole area is sketchy at best.

I pray he's wrong.

If you think the JHU neighborhood is sketchy, can I introduce you to "literally anywhere else in Baltimore?"

Let's not act like a stones throw from the Long Center isn't sketchy in Scranton!

[saratoga]

Sketchy near the Long Center is like the Hamptons compared to the JHU area of Baltimore...totally apples & oranges.
The JHU campus is great, just referring to the neighborhood surrounding it.

In Scranton you could be bothered by someone asking you for a dollar, in Baltimore you might be shot dead for that dollar.

Also, 10 minutes from the Long Center you also have 500k homes near the park.

Totally different vibe of sketch.