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Originally Posted by meaubry
I agree that strength of schedule should play into the formula somewhere. It seems like it is implying that the average opponents score is something that the winning team conscientiously somehow contributed to. I just don't see that occuring.
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SOS does fit into the formula this year. There are almost always multitple teams with the same record. Thus, how much the opponents score ranks those teams. If you got your own points, you could complain about SOS not being taken into account, because you could run up the scores against bad opponents and seed well. This year, if you opponents average 100 points, you are rewarded.
Of course, this doesn't take into account opponents record, which may or may not be a better indicator of thier strength, but the current system does take SOS into account.