2017-2018 D1 Women's Soccer Talk!

Swoosh said:
What do you mean forecasts? This is a week by week bracket, as if the season ended today what it would look like based on results up to now. It's usually pretty close with the NCAA selections.
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So the #1 and #2 teams in the country would be four seeds, several unranked teams would be higher seeds, the #7 team in the country wouldn't be in the tournament and Pepperdine would be a three seed. What is the value in something as ridiculous as that?
 
Swoosh said:
What do you mean forecasts? This is a week by week bracket, as if the season ended today what it would look like based on results up to now. It's usually pretty close with the NCAA selections.
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The RPI is useless until the last 2-3 weeks of the season
 
MakeAPlay said:
So the #1 and #2 teams in the country would be four seeds, several unranked teams would be higher seeds, the #7 team in the country wouldn't be in the tournament and Pepperdine would be a three seed. What is the value in something as ridiculous as that?
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That's IF the season ended today. It shows that teams still have a lot of work to do.
 
Swoosh said:
That's IF the season ended today. It shows that teams still have a lot of work to do.
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There is always a lot of work to do. Seems silly to publish a bracketology at this point when ultimately the committee decides the seeding and they only use the RPI in order to figure out eligible pools of teams. The analysis of the RPI even states that early on it over represents the non P5 conferences when in reality at the end of the season you get the exact opposite effect. I get that he publishes it as click bait for the website but again it has absolutely no real predictive value and the guy that maintains the archive for the NCAA explicitly states that it only shows what happened not what will happen. Chris Henderson's tweets imply that he believes that the PAC 12 will only get 4 teams in not including your Trojans. He even implies that UDub will get the 4th bid from the conference which I find laughable. UDub is probably the 7th best team in the conference and possibly the 8th and this weekend will show that. I like to see some thought put into things and his preseason effort was weak and inaccurate and now his early bracketology is weak too.

It will all work itself out in the end but damn if you are going to do something do a good job of it.
 
Thursday Picks: Winners in RED


California (8-1-0) vs. Arizona St. (4-4-1)
DePaul (4-5-1) vs. Georgetown (7-2-1)
Indiana (5-4-2) vs. Northwestern (5-4-2)
Marquette (7-3-1) vs. Villanova (4-6-0)
Purdue (7-2-1) vs. Illinois (3-9-0)
Seton Hall (0-6-3) vs. Butler (8-1-1)
Southern California (6-1-1) vs. Oregon St. (3-4-2)
St. John's (NY) (4-5-1) vs. Creighton (2-7-1)
Stanford (8-1-0) vs. Arizona (4-2-2)
UC Davis (1-9-0) vs. Hawaii (5-4-0)
UCLA (8-0-1) vs. Oregon (6-3-0)
Washington (7-3-0) vs. Utah (5-2-2)
Washington St. (5-2-2) vs. Colorado (6-2-2)
 
MakeAPlay said:
Thursday Picks: Winners in RED


California (8-1-0) vs. Arizona St. (4-4-1)
DePaul (4-5-1) vs. Georgetown (7-2-1)
Indiana (5-4-2) vs. Northwestern (5-4-2)
Marquette (7-3-1) vs. Villanova (4-6-0)
Purdue (7-2-1) vs. Illinois (3-9-0)
Seton Hall (0-6-3) vs. Butler (8-1-1)
Southern California (6-1-1) vs. Oregon St. (3-4-2)
St. John's (NY) (4-5-1) vs. Creighton (2-7-1)
Stanford (8-1-0) vs. Arizona (4-2-2)
UC Davis (1-9-0) vs. Hawaii (5-4-0)
UCLA (8-0-1) vs. Oregon (6-3-0)
Washington (7-3-0) vs. Utah (5-2-2)
Washington St. (5-2-2) vs. Colorado (6-2-2)
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How has your handicapping been so far this year?
 
The Driver said:
I never heard a player or a coach say that.

Winners win and the best team always seems to win without making excuses.

You mixing the lime wit the coconut
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You win or lose much in soccer? Soccer is the cruelest of games and the best don't always win. Barca and Real don't seem to always win do they. They should but they don't.
 
pulguita said:
You win or lose much in soccer? Soccer is the cruelest of games and the best don't always win. Barca and Real don't seem to always win do they. They should but they don't.
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How many games have we all watched where one team has 15 shots on goal, controls the whole game and fails to score, then the other team gets one chance and one goal.
 
The Driver said:
Barca and Real?

We are talking women's D1 soccer

US Women are the Best in the World

You should behave as such.
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That's your opinion as to being the best. How come they didn't beat Sweden and win the Olympics? You are clueless. You didn't answer my question. How much have you won and lost?
 
The Driver said:
US Women aren't the best?
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Sorry at the moment I don't think you can say they are. Lost Tournament of Nations, lost to France, lost to England. Beating New Zealand and Russia is nothing to write home about. I could have rounded up some local club teams that would have been better matches. I love watching the pundits discuss blowouts of 5-0 and 6-0 and how the US was doing this and that. What can you learn from a 6-0 blowout? Bottom line what does that have to do with the topic? You said best team always wins in soccer and some of us have called bs on you and a statement such as that indicates that you really are clueless when evaluating soccer.
 
pulguita said:
Sorry at the moment I don't think you can say they are. Lost Tournament of Nations, lost to France, lost to England. Beating New Zealand and Russia is nothing to write home about. I could have rounded up some local club teams that would have been better matches. I love watching the pundits discuss blowouts of 5-0 and 6-0 and how the US was doing this and that. What can you learn from a 6-0 blowout? Bottom line what does that have to do with the topic? You said best team always wins in soccer and some of us have called bs on you and a statement such as that indicates that you really are clueless when evaluating soccer.
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I think they are the Best in the World

Not here to debate it with you.
 
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