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Old 05-18-2017, 10:25 AM   #303
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Originally Posted by waterhead View Post
That is a solid slate which should give us a chance to get some signature wins as well as solid top 50 wins. Hopefully 1 or 2 more teams in the AAC pull their weight and we get WSU twice.

I like the idea of the committee looking at more metrics based ranking systems. The arbitrary cut offs of top 25, 50, and 100 wins doesn't tell the whole story. If you have played and beaten team in the low 50's a couple times would be an obvious example. Our wins over Houston couldn't have been much worse than a win over a team in the high 40's. Another if, for instance, the teams around 50 is higher quality or lower quality year over year.

Weighting actual rankings and win margins should be used. This way a win over a team ranked 49 is treated roughly the same as a win over a team ranked 51. In the grand scheme the team ranked 51 could actually be a better team than the one ranked 49...it could be a simple difference of a single last second full court shot made against them...in other words "luck" can play a bigger part in whether you are ranked either high 40's or low 50's.

Arbitrary cutoffs are dumb IMO.

I agree it is dumb.


Id almost rather the committee develop its own standard Metric and rank teams accordingly and have it be updated daily.

And then remove all stipulations in the tournament (you can play a team in your conference or a team you already played once in first round) and just take the human element out of seeding.
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