Quote:I've always wondered why you give people credit for where they were ranked at the time.  You see it every year....a team at the beginning of the year will beat a team ranked say No. 9.  As the year goes on that team will get 4 to 5 losses and somehow the team that beat them earlier gets credit for beating a #9 team.

 

When we're basing the final results, shouldn't we base it on their final records?

 

Agree. The basketball selection committee uses end of the season ratings (they don' care about rankings) when looking at team "resumes". Makes a lot more sense to me. Sometimes there is problems with it, like when Kentucky lost Nerlens Noel a couple years ago. Beating Kentucky when they had Noel was a much more impressive win than when he was hurt, but the ratings wouldn't reflect that. That's why it's nice to have a little human element, too, to recognize those things.

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