Bracketmatrix 2021-22

[cwbytruckers]

Got my tickets for Saturday. Anyone know of a good place to get a parking pass before hand?

Actually i got my parking pass.

 

[golfballs]

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My bracket from Saturday morning was the most accurate. It’s like the committee finished their work on Friday and called it a week.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

My bracket from before our game Saturday was the most accurate. It’s like the committee finished their work on Friday and called it a week.

Sad to say, but this isn’t a first. Conference tournaments are weak to irrelevant data to them. The logistics involved in the tournament are massive. They can’t work it out on the weekend. The heaviest influencing bodies are the conferences. They weigh in on preferences based on outcomes midweek. I wasn’t being contrary when I said they’d seed Duke and KY over their achievements. It’s just what the conferences were going to push. A&M being left out is a great example of the boundaries of conference sway. The only “contingencies” are the ones that are forced by auto bids. After our game, Buzz was being interviewed by a regional reporter behind the announcer table. He said we’re going to play more basketball in “a” tournament. He knew the deal. They were going to get screwed. In the end, I think I probably prefer a 3 in Indy over a 2 in the West. Imagine if we get to New Orleans. Few things ring truer to an SEC fan than playing for a championship there. The committee makes their guidelines as a way to justify what they do. They don’t use those guidelines to define what they do. That sucks, but it’s not new. The new changes they made to the guidelines just shine a brighter light on the politics involved. All that said, I would assume Sankey talked to White, who talked to Barnes. They knew the deal before Sunday was ever played.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

One final observation. Golfballs, you did a stellar job analyzing the data based on the inputs and the guidelines. If they played by the rules, you’d have been in the bullseye.

 

[Smokey123]

 

[VFL1993]

If Greg Sankey has an ounce of integrity he would come out and complain about the following (in order):

1. How did Texas A&M not get into the tourney given that they came in second in the conference tourney and their overall resume.

2. How did Tennessee only get a 3 seed when they won the conference tourney and given their overall resume.

He needs to fight for the legitimacy of conference tournaments otherwise top teams like Tennessee, Auburn and KY will start mailing it in each year which is bad for business.

It’s too bad Sankey has no integrity. He only cares about protecting what he deems to be the “prized hogs” of each sport.

 

[golfballs]

FWIW this was my last bracket prediction. When I get some time I'll have to score it using the matrix system. I picked 66 of the 68 teams. (Missed on Texas A&M and VCU). I got 52 teams within 3 spots of their place on the seed list. 14 teams between 4 and 7 spots on the seed list. And 2 I missed between 8 and 11. Those two were both ACC teams. I had VA Tech in 35th (9 seed), they ended up 46th (which should actually be a 12 seed but they got bumped up because of the play-in game). And Miami I had 46th (in the first 4), but they ended up 38th.

 

[JCP201]

Is Freak going to put up the VOL NATION bracket game this year?

 

[golfballs]

Sad to say, but this isn’t a first. Conference tournaments are weak to irrelevant data to them. The logistics involved in the tournament are massive. They can’t work it out on the weekend. The heaviest influencing bodies are the conferences. They weigh in on preferences based on outcomes midweek. I wasn’t being contrary when I said they’d seed Duke and KY over their achievements. It’s just what the conferences were going to push. A&M being left out is a great example of the boundaries of conference sway. The only “contingencies” are the ones that are forced by auto bids. After our game, Buzz was being interviewed by a regional reporter behind the announcer table. He said we’re going to play more basketball in “a” tournament. He knew the deal. They were going to get screwed. In the end, I think I probably prefer a 3 in Indy over a 2 in the West. Imagine if we get to New Orleans. Few things ring truer to an SEC fan than playing for a championship there. The committee makes their guidelines as a way to justify what they do. They don’t use those guidelines to define what they do. That sucks, but it’s not new. The new changes they made to the guidelines just shine a brighter light on the politics involved. All that said, I would assume Sankey talked to White, who talked to Barnes. They knew the deal before Sunday was ever played.

I was thinking about this. And I don’t think it’s that they cant do it. If amateur bracketolgists can come up with brackets according to the committee’s own metrics updated through the very last game then certainly so can they. I think the problem is the process which they use. Have you read their bracketing principles? They go through rounds and rounds of “voting” to whittle teams down into each division of the bracket. It’s a process built to form a general consensus, but unfortunately that is time consuming and they couldn’t feasibly be able to accomplish it between the last game and the selection show. In the past they have contingency brackets, but even going into Sunday there are still quite a few possible outcomes.

It’s an extremely antiquated process which was built prior to the data that’s now available to them. The metrics they now have at hand affords them measures for evaluating all teams fairly which in the past was best accomplished through a group of people building consensus. They need to bring the process up to speed with the times