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1) game to game variability.  Sometimes a team is on fire, everything clicks, and they are unstoppable on offense; sometimes they can’t hit the broad side of a barn. If anyone ever figures out how to conquer inconsistency in athletic endeavors, you could have a very successful career as a coach or sports psychologist.

2) I’m too lazy to look, but a better metric might be defensive efficiency than overall team quality.  For example, Stanford is an overall ok team but has a very good defense; someone playing us might be expected to struggle offensively more than one might expect given our overall rating.

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1) game to game variability.  Sometimes a team is on fire, everything clicks, and they are unstoppable on offense; sometimes they can’t hit the broad side of a barn. If anyone ever figures out how to conquer inconsistency in athletic endeavors, you could have a very successful career as a coach or sports psychologist.

2) I’m too lazy to look, but a better metric might be defensive efficiency than overall team quality.  For example, Stanford is an overall ok team but has a very good defense; someone playing us might be expected to struggle offensively more than one might expect given our overall rating.

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