[2006alum]

Women’s College Basketball Players Rankings – Class by Class! Week 4 – Women's Basketball News and Opinions (wbasketballblog.com)

wasn't sure where to put this.

As a side not Rice listed in top frosh: Lepolo 62 assists, Rice 29

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketballw/...conference

I believe rankings such as these, especially done weekly, have little value.  Seems like a fool's errand to attempt to evaluate and compare objectively the weekly performance of a very large pool of athletes playing against unbalanced competition.  I suppose it generates traffic to the website.

As an aside, the initial NCAA NET Rankings put 9-0 LSU at #5.  I can't understand how it landed there with such a weak Strength of Schedule.  #8 VA Tech (8-0), for example, has one fewer win but is 3-0 versus teams rated 26-50 and 1-0 versus teams between 51-100.  LSU on the other hand is 2-0 against teams rated 51-100.  All other LSU victories came against teams rated 150+.

I presume this will get straightened out as the season progresses. Still seems illogical to me.

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_ranking...ties/28085

NET heavily weighs margin of victory relative to human voters (who do to some extent) and RPI (which does not at all). So while LSU has played cupcakes, they've run up margins that are still impressive, and I suspect feeds into their otherwise otherworldly ranking relative to their SOS to date.

[2006alum]

Women’s College Basketball Players Rankings – Class by Class! Week 4 – Women's Basketball News and Opinions (wbasketballblog.com)

wasn't sure where to put this.

As a side not Rice listed in top frosh: Lepolo 62 assists, Rice 29

https://www.warrennolan.com/basketballw/...conference

I believe rankings such as these, especially done weekly, have little value.  Seems like a fool's errand to attempt to evaluate and compare objectively the weekly performance of a very large pool of athletes playing against unbalanced competition.  I suppose it generates traffic to the website.

As an aside, the initial NCAA NET Rankings put 9-0 LSU at #5.  I can't understand how it landed there with such a weak Strength of Schedule.  #8 VA Tech (8-0), for example, has one fewer win but is 3-0 versus teams rated 26-50 and 1-0 versus teams between 51-100.  LSU on the other hand is 2-0 against teams rated 51-100.  All other LSU victories came against teams rated 150+.

I presume this will get straightened out as the season progresses. Still seems illogical to me.

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_ranking...ties/28085

NET heavily weighs margin of victory relative to human voters (who do to some extent) and RPI (which does not at all). So while LSU has played cupcakes, they've run up margins that are still impressive, and I suspect feeds into their otherwise otherworldly ranking relative to their SOS to date.