Games of interest

[ShockerFever]

Oooohhh, burn!

cough, cough, beat Lunardi each of the last 3 years, cough, cough

How'd you do predicting WSU at the beginning of last year?

Please take a break for a while. We all don't wanna catch whatever you're coughing up.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

So if we are 4th in the RPI and the RPI factors in strength of schedule there doesn't seem to be much basis for guys like the Goober boys (Gottlieb and *******) to argue that we don't DESERVE a #1 seed other than they just feel like throwing a BCS tantrum.

I think WSU deserves a 1 seed as much as anybody else on this board, but nobody in their right mind believes it makes sense to seed exactly based on RPI. It is helpful, but not nearly THAT precise.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

How'd you do predicting WSU at the beginning of last year?

I had a bet going as to how long it would take you to distract with that half truth. I was off by 2 posts. Thought you would do it sooner.

[pie n eye]

I dunno why I haven't done this before.

[1972Shocker]

I think WSU deserves a 1 seed as much as anybody else on this board, but nobody in their right mind believes it makes sense to seed exactly based on RPI. It is helpful, but not nearly THAT precise.

Yes, but there are many other metrics that also support them as a No.1 seed plus anyone with two eyes and a middlin' amount of basketball IQ understands that WSU is very deserving of a #1 seed. But keep nitpicking it is obviously your life's mission.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

But as it stands, are you really bringing it with "total wins" as a statistic used to try and enhance your point? I mean even for stat geek, did you really just do that?

Yes, I did.

This is actually very simple.

Team A won more games than Team B.
Team A played a significantly harder schedule than Team B.
Team A is better than Team B.

More wins is not enough info. A tougher SOS is not enough info. Combine the 2... yes, enough info.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

I had hoped Utah might pull off the upset of Arizona. Not looking like it is going to happen. 32-13 right now.

[im4wsu]

How many wins/losses does KSU have on the road/neutral sites? I think only 1 on the road at TT. Dong know his many neutral wins. One at IBA maybe? They seem to bd good at home but nowhere else.

Home 15-2
Away 2-7
Neutral 3-3

[Cdizzle]

Yes, I did.

This is actually very simple.

Team A won more games than Team B.
Team A played a significantly harder schedule than Team B.
Team A is better than Team B.

More wins is not enough info. A tougher SOS is not enough info. Combine the 2... yes, enough info.

What is the SOS of the games Team A and Team B actually won? Where were those games played?

[RoyalShock]

Yes, but there are many other metrics that also support them as a No.1 seed plus anyone with two eyes and a middlin' amount of basketball IQ understands that WSU is very deserving of a #1 seed. But keep nitpicking it is obviously your life's mission.

Only in the last week did we move to #4 in Pomeroy. Sagarin has us at 12. Before the last game of the MVC tournament, there were as many metrics which said we weren't a 1-seed as those that did.

Fortunately, no metric is used to directly determine seeds.

And for the record, since it was brought up in this topic, Lunardi has always been a mediocre bracketologist. Having a bigger arena to play in doesn't make you a better team. A couple of years ago someone did a historical ranking of bracketologists by accuracy. Lunardi was right in the middle. I think it included somewhere around 70-80 different ones. If he were a basketball team, he'd finish around fifth in the Valley and might get an invite to the CIT.

[Cdizzle]

And for the record, since it was brought up in this topic, Lunardi has always been a mediocre bracketologist. Having a bigger arena to play in doesn't make you a better team. A couple of years ago someone did a historical ranking of bracketologists by accuracy. Lunardi was right in the middle. I think it included somewhere around 70-80 different ones. If he were a basketball team, he'd finish around fifth in the Valley and might get an invite to the CIT.

That's crap! Everyone would finish in the Top 2 in the Valley!

[Cdizzle]

Come on, DePaul. Do us a solid for dragging your sorry selves around to every MTE we go to.

[shockmonster]

K State could be as low as a 11 or 12 seed. I say 10 is their highest possibility.

[Play Angry]

Tulsa beating Tulane 65-44 in the CUSA quarterfinals.

[HenryMuto]

Oooohhh, burn!

cough, cough, beat Lunardi each of the last 3 years, cough, cough

Not sure how much that means I have beat Lunardi every year since they started keeping track on the bracket matrix in 2006 and most years handily that makes 7 years in a row from 2006-2012 before I faltered and he tied me last year (though I still got all 68 teams right even good ole Middle Tennessee)

I also beat Jerry Palm every year from 2006-2013 except 2009 when he beat me by 5 pts.

In 2006 I actually would have been #1 overall and in 2007 #2 overall (not saying much I guess only 10-20 people were involved back then but they were all the "experts" from TV and blogs"