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How a bracket is built

tornado said:
In day 1 of the NCAA ...
West Virginia (losers 77-54 losers to Gonzaga) and UConn (77-64 losers to Iowa State) proved they simply did not belong in the NCAA...

This is a year-in and year-out occurrence...where the Selection Committee bows down tot he Big East and honors them with somewhere around 17 at large bids....only to have just about all of them bomb out...

UNLV also proved vastly overated...

Quit giving bids to the 10th best teams in your favorite east coast conferences, and give them to Drexel or even Bucknell!!!
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By this logic, it can also be siad that Wichita State and Creighton were definitely not under seeded, and at least in Wichita's case, they were badly overseeded, correct?

Remember Iowa State was an 8 seed due to under performance early in the season...they had played at a much higher level at the end of the season (T-3rd with a 3 seed Baylor in a conference that plays a true round-robin schedule). The same is true of Memphis, whose late season play was far above that of a typical 8 seed.
 
TheAsianSensation said:
I just offered conclusive mathematical proof that Kentucky/Indiana, Kentucky/Duke, Wichita/VCU , and every other matchup in this bracket is the logcal result of a bracketing process and it is impossible for the NCAA to avoid said matchups.
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Nice work. But, I would be more impressed if you did it before knowing what the outcome actually was.

Also, is there any subjectivity at all in the S-curve rankings?
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Nice work. But, I would be more impressed if you did it before knowing what the outcome actually was.

Also, is there any subjectivity at all in the S-curve rankings?
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Well since the NCAA doesn't release that darned S-curve before the bracket, no way to do it. But I did do it without thinking about the actual bracket.

I don't think there's any subjectivity in the S-curve. The way they vote for the curve is very mechanical in nature.
 
TAS good job...The only part that is subjective is the seeding guidelines. Once that is done everything else is taken out of the committee's hand.
 
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