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