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re: Predict how long it will be before the BCS returns to decide the playoffs
Posted on 11/1/14 at 7:43 pm to headboard banger
Posted on 11/1/14 at 7:43 pm to headboard banger
People are going to go apeshit over the current system by the end of this season.
The BCS was imperfect for deciding the best two teams, but would have been beyond reproach in picking a top 4. If you're not in the discussion as a top 4 team, "objectively" decided by a formulaic system, you have no claim to be in the championship conversation...period. Tough luck to the #5 team. But if you're the number 5 and it is a committee of people subjectively choosing whether you should be top 4...that's where things will get very hairy.
The human element/human bias/lack of transparency with the current system will be its downfall, and it will be sooner rather than later.
The BCS was imperfect for deciding the best two teams, but would have been beyond reproach in picking a top 4. If you're not in the discussion as a top 4 team, "objectively" decided by a formulaic system, you have no claim to be in the championship conversation...period. Tough luck to the #5 team. But if you're the number 5 and it is a committee of people subjectively choosing whether you should be top 4...that's where things will get very hairy.
The human element/human bias/lack of transparency with the current system will be its downfall, and it will be sooner rather than later.
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Posted on 11/1/14 at 8:09 pm to tigerfan4120
That's the part I don't like. We are pretty much leaving it up to the committee to decide.
The first poll was easy to make for the top 4 because no other team outside of those four, had a good enough win, or good enough win and loss, to be declared any higher. After the regular season ends, the SEC West will have obviously cannibalized itself. Now, do you pick the team that wins the division with two losses (pretty much by a set of tie breaks), or the team that was actually the best one?
Let's say hypothetically
MSU loses to Ole Miss and Bama - MSU 2 losses
Auburn beats Ole Miss - Ole Miss 2 losses
Bama beats Auburn - Auburn 2 losses
LSU beats Bama and wins out - LSU 2 losses
Bama - 2 losses
Five teams sitting at 10-2. I don't care to go through the tie breaks right now, but would the winner of the West really be the best team in the West? Would LSU be better off having lost earlier in the year? Things are getting pretty interesting.
ETA: removed the Arky part, but you see where I'm going with this.
The first poll was easy to make for the top 4 because no other team outside of those four, had a good enough win, or good enough win and loss, to be declared any higher. After the regular season ends, the SEC West will have obviously cannibalized itself. Now, do you pick the team that wins the division with two losses (pretty much by a set of tie breaks), or the team that was actually the best one?
Let's say hypothetically
MSU loses to Ole Miss and Bama - MSU 2 losses
Auburn beats Ole Miss - Ole Miss 2 losses
Bama beats Auburn - Auburn 2 losses
LSU beats Bama and wins out - LSU 2 losses
Bama - 2 losses
Five teams sitting at 10-2. I don't care to go through the tie breaks right now, but would the winner of the West really be the best team in the West? Would LSU be better off having lost earlier in the year? Things are getting pretty interesting.
ETA: removed the Arky part, but you see where I'm going with this.
This post was edited on 11/1/14 at 8:30 pm
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