Originally Posted by TerryK_67
What a HUGE crock of hooey….. This is college basketball, not rocket science.... all the data in the world will not tell you the outcome of a game; no less the balance of a tournament selection as a result of thousands of games! There is a reason that they go ahead and play these game! This is clearly headed to classic paralysis by analysis....
I still think it is an overt attempt to give more cloudiness to the selection process so that they can justify any outcome they want.
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It's not necessarily to predict an outcome of a single game - if that was the case I would take the machines to Vegas! It's to identify quality teams. Of course anything can happen on a given night - so you play the game.
There are like 5,000 NCAA games every year. Unless there is someone that actually watches every single one of them (it would take 416 days if watched back to back without sleep), then there is no human on earth that can actually rank the teams against each other. All they can do it look at results and see if those results jive with their preconceived idea of who is good.
As smaller schools get better, it makes it harder to actually rank them. We can all talk about Radford at #22 is insane, and it probably is, but how many of us have actually watched them play? For that matter, how many of the people voting for the top 25 have watched a second of a Radford game this year?
At some point we need to embrace technology to help us do the things we can't. Like watching 5,000 basketball games.