+1. This is so true. They never had to defend what they wrote when it was just in newsprint. Now they get called out on it.winwave wrote:You have to remember that forever the media was the only one with a say. As Graff just said he's just a fan with a mic. That's all writers are too. Now that fans can respond they can't handle it.
I was curious about the P5 bias in baseball, so I did a random check as an example, and used warrennolan for all the stats.
I used Miami of the ACC as my example. They were #3 national seed, #2 in RPI. #5 in SOS. Seems reasonable. But then, most of their games were played against other teams in their conference, so in my theory, that artificially inflates their RPI. Therefore, I looked at their non-conference record. They were 20-3. However, against teams in the Top100 RPI, they were 2-3. The other 18 games were all teams with an RPI of 100+. So, did they really have the fifth toughest schedule? I don't think so, I think its inflated because all the ACC teams had inflated RPIs. And I think the same goes for the SEC.
