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Post by horchato on Nov 28, 2022 14:54:15 GMT -5
I understand that, but the only way to prevent things like this from happening is to seed 1-64. At least they're moving in the right direction. Much more simply, "pool" non-seeded teams into quadrants 3 and 4 and voila! you have prevented it. The poster who argued "ability to cause chaos" as a seeding factor, I'd argue that for the low seeds and unseeded you absolutely want to consider that. Big wins over top teams would be the largest chaos factor - and Pepperdine by their win over Minnesota alone would have then avoided being a quadrant 4 team. For higher seeds, the overall body of work and end-of-year form should be the two biggest factors, and I'm really unconvinced that the committee at all cared about end-of-year form. Last point - the committee should be committed to avoiding repeat matchups in the NCAA Tournament, even if it breaks the driving distance rule. You're doing a team/school no favors by saving them the cost of plane tickets if you're sending them to the Stanford subregional for three straight years. We are very much in agreement. For the last couple of at-large teams, why are an uninspiring Auburn and a flat out mediocre Ball St rewarded slots over a team like Northwestern that have made positive national headlines on 3-5 occasions?
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Post by bbg95 on Nov 28, 2022 15:05:53 GMT -5
RPI screws over B1G and PAC RPI doesn't have to screw over anyone to suck. It's absolutely horrible without such inherent biases, since it can be gamed, it does a poor job actually predicting a team's strength based on their RPI number, and does weird things like punish teams for winning matches and rewarding them for losing matches (all those results should be zeroed out). The NCAA should be flat-out embarrassed to still be using that metric in 2022. Yet not only do they continue to do so, but they wear it like a badge of honor. I don't really think they wear it as a badge of honor, but I agree with everything else you said. RPI should have been abandoned in all sports long ago.
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