Originally posted by im4wsu
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If Kentucky wins at Ohio State by 1, it was expected they would win, and Kentucky fans probably complain that they didn't win by more. Their expectations were not met.
If Bradley wins at Missouri State by 1, it was a surprise, and their fans are probably very pleased by the outcome. Their expectations were exceeded.
But then pretend that I come along and tell you that I'm not interested in discussing expectations at the moment. I just want to know which is a better win. Which win does a better job building a resume? Which win is more highly regarded by a selection committee member trying to analyze your resume?
Your answer would be "well, Bradley fans were the most pleased, but since you asked me to ignore expectations and just focus on the pure value of the wins themselves, in that case, I will say that winning at Ohio State is a better win than winning at Missouri State. Ohio State is better than Missouri State and a win over OSU, in and of itself, is a better win than a win over Missouri State."
See what I'm saying? In my example, I told you what Team A and Team B did in the course of 2 games each. You don't know anything about Team A or Team B's expectations. I left out that information on purpose because I didn't want to allow for any distractions or rabbit trails. When you first mentioned expectations, I even told you directly to ignore expectations because that information is not known in my scenario and is not important to my point. Yet somehow you keep going back to some pretend world where you know information about Team A and Team B that I did not give you to begin with.
Expectations have nothing to do with my question. I just want the absolute, straightforward, no other assumptions made answer to the question.
Is beating a top 10 and a bottom 10 team better than, worse than, or equal to beating a pair of dead center middle of the pack mediocre D1 teams?
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