I posted it because I think it is an improvement for the conference over the current system.
How is setting blatantly unbalanced and unfair schedules an “improvement for the conference”?
First reason is their top SOS, which is exactly what you are asking about. So it is self-evident.
What is self-evident is that State was able to put together a great SOS without needing the hardest conference schedule. What is also self-evident is that consistently having the toughest schedule in the conference would make it even more difficult to earn a two-round bye in the ACCT.
– A complete round-robin schedule is fair, but will never happen.
– More conference games would make the schedules more fair, but are unlikely to happen.
– Completely random schedules would still leave some teams with harder schedules in a given year, but should tend to even out over time and is as fair as we could get.
What we have now is not fair, but not expected to change.
