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I don't know how many times coaches have come up with the question to me we have beaten this other team twice in
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the season. Therefore, we should be ranked higher than them, but we're not. Your system is messed up. And so, it's
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like, well, how do you answer that question? And the most direct way I could find the answer that question was
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to show cycles. So, I found in the data, just looking at wins and losses, team A has beat team B two or three
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times, team B has beat team C two or three times. And if you argue that A has to be ranked better than B, and B should
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be ranked better than C, then A should be ranked better than C, but C beat A two or three times. And then you
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realize you can't use that logic. It's completely impossible to have a ranking
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system that would satisfy that criterion.