All Time Average of NET Rankings Teams & Conference

NET has been around for 4 years now as the preferred tool of the NCAA selection committee. Let’s take a look at who has the best average of those 4 seasons both for teams and conferences.

More elements than only winning % are included in the NET. It considers game outcomes, the difficulty of the opponent’s schedule, the venue of the game, the scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the caliber of victories and losses. It serves as both a predictive and results-driven metric.

After consulting with the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, leading basketball analytics specialists, and Google Cloud Professional Services, the NET rankings methodology was upgraded in the summer of 2018.

The 2017–18 season’s late-season games, including those from the NCAA tournament, served as the initial test sets for a rating algorithm that made use of machine learning methods. The model was improved until it was as accurate as feasible by using it to forecast game results in test sets.

The NET makes advantage of that model.

A team’s first game counts the same as its 30th game because the NET rankings did not take into account the game order or date.

The NET will no longer use winning percentage, adjusted winning percentage, or scoring margin as a result of the modifications announced in May 2020. After consulting with Google Cloud Professional Services, which collaborated with the NCAA to create the original NET, the committee decided to make the alteration.