NC State and the rest of the ACC at the midway point

We’re about as close to the halfway point in the regular season as you can get with all teams having played either five or six games, so now seems like a good time to take a look an inventory of what’s happened so far... through the eyes of some advanced metrics!

Taking a look at how the teams have progressed week-by-week in the eyes of both the F/+ and Sagarin rankings tells a good story, and one that’s pretty well reflected in the ol’ Eye Test, too.

Graphing out the average weekly rankings of F/+ and Sagarin gives us this:

With an eye on the above data, teams can start to be dropped into a few broad buckets and also some groupings/tiers.