new metric

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Originally Posted by cincrulz11

well then that sounds much better than the ranting nate silver has been doing on twitter.

I'm a huge fan of Silver's. I just finished his book, which is excellent. But I think he has the wrong idea here. The NET rankings are only meant to be definitive at the end of the season. They aren't like Kenpom, which is supposed to be as accurate as possible even right now. So judging rankings in November based on how good teams really are kind of misses the point. Similarly, no one would have used RPI in November as a legitimate ranking.