re: NCAA Regional Host Candidate Comparison

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I enjoy the discussion btw. It's not often you get a back and forth on this board where there isn't one side that totally void of any logic, reasoning. So, I may not agree with you, but at least it's coming from an educated reasoning.

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I have added in a couple of other splits of the data based on your feedback. (Copied below.) I think I found a way to balance performance against Q1 and other games. That’s really where LSU has excelled. They’ve held their own against Q1 and dominated everyone else. A lot of the other contenders have performed well against one group but not the other.

vs RPI Quad 1 (Excluding Midweek):
7) UCLA 10-4 (.714)
8) ND 13-6 (.684)
9) Texas 14-9 (.609)
10) TA&M 13-9 (.591)
11) Lvlle 14-10 (.583)
12) Auburn 12-10 (.545)
13) Okla 11-11 (.500)
13) Virginia 11-11 (.500)
15) Arkansas 11-12 (.478)
16) LSU 12-14 (.462)
17) Okla St 10-12 (.455)
18) Tx Tech 8-10 (.444)
19) TCU 8-11 (.421)
20) Oregon 5-8 (.385)

Other Weekend vs Big 4 (+series lost):
7) LSU 6-1 (.857)
8) Okla St 8-2 (.800)
8) Tx Tech 8-2 (.800)
10) Arkansas 7-2 (.778)
11) TCU 10-3 (.769)
12) Texas 8-4 (.667)
12) Okla 8-4 (.667)
12) Virginia 6-3 (.667)
15) TA&M 9-6 (.600)
16) Oregon 16-11 (.593)
17) UCLA 12-9 (.571)
18) Lvlle 5-5 (.500)
18) Auburn 7-7 (.500)
20) Notre Dame 4-5 (.444)

This next number is a little more difficult to explain/follow. The idea is to give a consistent weight to games vs Q1 vs the games in the other category. The idea is keep teams from padding the WPct with more non-Q1 games. On average, these teams played 63% of games in the above two categories against Q1, so I gave 63% weight to WPct against Q1 and 37% weight to the WPct against the Other category.

Weighted WPct:
7) UCLA (.661)
8) Texas (.630)
9) LSU (.608)
10) ND (.595)
11) TA&M (.594)
12) Arkansas (.589)
13) Okla St (.582)
14) Tx Tech (.576)
15) Okla (.562)
15) Virginia (.562)
17) Lvlle (.552)
18) TCU (.550)
19) Auburn (.529)
20) Oregon (.462)