It’s not even the final score. Anyone who saw the Virginia-Harvard game knows Harvard wasn’t really competitive against the Cavaliers.Matnum PI wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:06 pm I have several issues with judging teams based on game scores including... Players and coaches play to win, they don't play to win by as many goals as possible. If the metric used doesn't match the vision and goals of the teams evaluated, it's not a great metric.
Same goes for Yale against Cornell and Princeton. Yale wasn’t competitive at all.
Not even being competitive is a huge red flag. Arguably even more important than the “L” itself. Plenty of teams in the top 20 could lose to Cornell or Princeton.
But to not even be competitive? If a team isn’t even competitive against Cornell and Princeton, it is questionable whether they should even be ranked, much less in the top 10.
I’m not against Yale. I don’t even care much about mid-season rankings.
What I do object to is completely ignoring what is seen on the field … treating the actual play as an abstraction.
No one in their right mind could watch Yale the last two weeks and think, “Top 10 team.”
DocBarrister