can have on the final results.

However, psychologically, a team that knows it is good yet starts out with no respect tends to practice and play with an edge, and a tempo, as though the team is on a crusade to right a terrible wrong. That is more important to me than an outsized impact of an early ranking.

Therefore, all things considered, I'll take the positive side of being overlooked and the overconfident opponents that state of affairs tends to produce. And in future, rather than starting out by telling someone he has an opinion because he lacks understanding, you may want to make sure you understand in the first place. I feel like someone wrote a book about that once.