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WAB Metric
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WAB Metric
On the NCAA Net rankings page I noticed a metric called “WAB”. I’d never heard of it before. It stands for Wins Above Bubble and is supposed to measure how much better a team’s resume is compared to a team that is on the cusp of making the tournament.
Utah State is ranked 11th in WAB. Not bad.
Utah State is ranked 11th in WAB. Not bad.
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Re: WAB Metric
WAB was added to the team sheets this year and yesterday it replaced the Home Record on the NCAA website so it's definitely important. It's a metric that was created by Barttorvik. Bart described the metric as:
On his website he has us listed as 9th in the country with 3.3 Wins Above Bubble. The NCAA uses the same formula to calculate but they have different input number to calculate it. Unfortunately the NCAA only shares their rankings and not the value that goes behind it.The WAB number isn't how many games a bubble team would win against that team's schedule, it's how many MORE (or fewer) games a team has won against its schedule than a bubble-quality team would be expected to win. So say a team has a schedule that a bubble quality team would be expected to go 10-10 against. If the team is actually 15-5, that's a WAB of +5.0. If they were 5-15, the team's WAB would be -5.0. If they are 10-10, it's par, 0.
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Re: WAB Metric
Good! I thought it was the "Weak (I can't express myself without swearing) (I can't express myself without swearing)" metric and was worried we were ranked 11th. Thanks for clarifying. I guess it's a good thing we ranked so high.
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Re: WAB Metric
They retired that version once David Collette transfered to Utah and broke the computers that run it.FloridaAggie13 wrote:Good! I thought it was the "Weak (I can't express myself without swearing) (I can't express myself without swearing)" metric and was worried we were ranked 11th. Thanks for clarifying. I guess it's a good thing we ranked so high.
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Re: WAB Metric
Wet-(I can't express myself without swearing) (I can't express myself without swearing)?
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Re: WAB Metric
So it's a metric similar to the WAR (wins above replacement) used in MLB statistics to put a score on a player's value (in team wins contributed) as compared to a league average replacement for that player?
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Re: WAB Metric
San Jose's floor crew is #1 on this metric.Mr. Sneelock wrote: ↑January 8th, 2025, 4:42 pmWet-(I can't express myself without swearing) (I can't express myself without swearing)?