Jay Bilas' plan for "fixing" NCAA tournament

[bthaunert]

Originally posted by BlueCat43:

Originally posted by bthaunert:
I think his proposal would be a nightmare. We found out in football this year that doing weekly rankings is what made it a mess. If they would have just released their standings at the end of the season, there would have been much less of an argument about teams jumping teams to get into the playoffs. With this proposal, you would be doing daily rankings. So, on March 8th, you put out your list of 1-68. You would have to be updating that thing all week long every day. Tomorrow alone, there will be about 150 teams playing in a game. Let's say that 34 of the 68 teams in the top 68 play tomorrow, you would then have to re-rank teams after the wins and losses. And then you would do the same thing on Friday. It would be an absolute nightmare.

The rankings would be the weekly rankings through the regular season. After the regular season the rankings stop other than replacing bottom teams, if necessary, with tourney champions.

I probably should have read the article first. So, a power conference team could not improve their resume with big wins in their conference tournament with this format. What if an ACC team, who was in danger of losing their at-large bid to a team from a small conference who got an auto bid, beats Duke and UVA in the ACC tournament, while a second ACC team ranked a couple spots higher gets beat in the 1st round of the conference tournament? Does team 2 still get in ahead of team 1? Not sure I am a huge fan of discounting conference tournaments as last chances for teams to build their resume.

This post was edited on 3/12 8:02 AM by bthaunert

 

[mkasten25]

Originally posted by Huma1894:
He forgot one thing: get rid of the stupid RPI.

I would also change SOS to assign equivalence to teams 75-125, 125-200 and 200+. Because our SOS takes a hit because we play a top 10 team and a 300 team, but a team who plays 2 150 ranked teams has a tougher SOS.

 

[BlueCat43]

Originally posted by bthaunert:

Originally posted by BlueCat43:

Originally posted by bthaunert:
I think his proposal would be a nightmare. We found out in football this year that doing weekly rankings is what made it a mess. If they would have just released their standings at the end of the season, there would have been much less of an argument about teams jumping teams to get into the playoffs. With this proposal, you would be doing daily rankings. So, on March 8th, you put out your list of 1-68. You would have to be updating that thing all week long every day. Tomorrow alone, there will be about 150 teams playing in a game. Let's say that 34 of the 68 teams in the top 68 play tomorrow, you would then have to re-rank teams after the wins and losses. And then you would do the same thing on Friday. It would be an absolute nightmare.

The rankings would be the weekly rankings through the regular season. After the regular season the rankings stop other than replacing bottom teams, if necessary, with tourney champions.

I probably should have read the article first. So, a power conference team could not improve their resume with big wins in their conference tournament with this format. What if an ACC team, who was in danger of losing their at-large bid to a team from a small conference who got an auto bid, beats Duke and UVA in the ACC tournament, while a second ACC team ranked a couple spots higher gets beat in the 1st round of the conference tournament? Does team 2 still get in ahead of team 1? Not sure I am a huge fan of discounting conference tournaments as last chances for teams to build their resume.

This post was edited on 3/12 8:02 AM by bthaunert

No system will account for every scenario, but I think this idea goes a long way in the right direction. The conference tourney essentially only count for the automatic bid and nothing else. It takes away situations like Uconn a few years back when they sucked all year long and then won the Big East and NCAA tourneys. Whether eliminating that is good or bad is for each individual to decide for themselves, but I do think the simplicity of the system is refreshing.