Originally Posted by
SCMatt33
I don't know if anyone knows for sure, because I've never seen it in writing, but I was wondering if anyone knows for sure about how injuries are handled by the committee. I was always under the impression that games without a key injured player were given less, but not zero, weight provided that said player returned and the team re-established its pre-injury level. There are a few other questions that I have no idea about.
1) Are injuries to role players (a Lance Thomas type) given any consideration at all?
2) How are short term injuries considered? For example, the Kalin Lucas thing. He was out for the loss against Illinois, but there likely won't be a string of games (like OSU with Evan Turner) to prove that the team was worse because he was gone and not just a bad night for everyone else. If they do give less weight, this would seem to unnecessarily punish a team like Clemson for trying to play a guy like Stitt when he was injured.
3) Are teams given more credit for wins when a player is in or out (ex: Will UNC get more credit for beating OSU than Butler)?
I've never seen anything in writing about this. It may be just discretion of the committee, but I thought I'd ask anyway.