The NCAA’s announcement that it would ditch the hated RPI metric and replace it with a new “NET” rating system for postseason selections was met with cheers of glee among college basketball statheads.
But how would previous seasons have been evaluated under NET? And how would that have affected the Virginia Cavaliers’ tournament positions?
Using media reports of what the new NET components will be, Bart Torvik compiled a data set of how NET would compare to RPI over the past 10 years.
For your perusal, some raw historical data for 4 of the 5 NET components (acc.