BYU to the Final 4

:lol:



In reality, I filled in my bracket by doing the following computation.

1) Found the collective win percentage over the last 3 years and multiplied by 100

2) Assigned point per tournament win last year (1 point for NCAA, 0.5 for NIT, 0.25 for crap tournaments) and multiplied by 10



Using this formula, it has Kentucky, K-State, Ohio State and BYU in the final 4. Some of BYU's success was due to the fact that according to this computation, after Marquette their path was Murray State, Florida, New Mexico (which are all winnable games if they are playing right).

I was surprised to see that many of the teams that won 1-2 games last year are not in the tournament this year. You are right, maybe I should have weighted this years winning percentage higher. I will go try that now, although I still want to reward tournament wins last year in some manner.

AggieWeekendCougar wrote:
I was surprised to see that many of the teams that won 1-2 games last year are not in the tournament this year. You are right, maybe I should have weighted this years winning percentage higher. I will go try that now, although I still want to reward tournament wins last year in some manner.

Try multiplying the number of tourney wins from last year by the number of returning starters from that team and then multiply that number by a weighting factor. You could go back two or even three years and do the same thing.

That sounds like way too much work for me haha. My choices aren't mathematical, but I do give a heavier weight to teams that performed really well in their conference tournaments and teams that I've seen play this year.

What is the multiple of madness in that equation?

For the first time in a long time I didn't even fill in a bracket. It's amazing how free I now feel to root for underdogs!

so much for YOUR bracket.



BUSTED! lol