I love Will and the fact that he’s accepted all the algorithms, figured it out, and knows how to manipulate the numbers. But I think the whole thing is crap for college basketball. You play...to win...the game. Hello!!

I understand the process usually yields results, but the college basketball regular season is almost irrelevant save for the bubble teams. Seeding matters little. Win, you move on. No extra credit for efficiency. You still just move to the next round. I like that Wade understands it, but I don’t like that head coaches are forced to coach to the NET and other similar rbitrary equations.

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Posted by xiv

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Posted on 1/30/20 at 7:49 am to Hot Carl

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I think the whole thing is crap for college basketball. You play...to win...the game.

To be fair, this...

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YOU HAVE TO BEAT THE COMPUTERS.

...is a bit oversold.

Hypothetical: LSU is #4 at the end of the regular season. If the top 3 are say, Gonzaga (Los Angeles), Duke (New York), and Kansas (Indianapolis), LSU will go to the Houston bracket. Replace Gonzaga with Baylor, and we’re in the Los Angeles bracket.

Hypothetical 2: Kentucky and LSU meet in the SEC Tournament and end up #13 & #20 respectively. Ordinarily, 13&20 are in the same pod as 4&5 seeds, but LSU can’t be in the same pod as a team they’ve played twice, so in this case, LSU would be bumped down a peg to a 6 seed.

What I mean is, at a certain point at or near the top, bracket structure can affect your seed more than a garbage time 3 can.

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Posted by Adam Banks

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Posted on 1/30/20 at 8:42 am to Hot Carl

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Seeding matters little

What? Seeding is everything. If we could have risen above one or two more teams we might would have advanced further because Michigan state was a matchup nightmare for us

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