Updated Arch Madness probabilities - Feb 24

[BCPanther]

If I were predicting today, I would go--

1-WSU
2-UNI
3-CU
4-ISUblue
5-UE
6-ISUred
7-BU
8-MSU
9-DU
10-SIU

Consensus??

[Red]

If I were predicting today, I would go--

1-WSU
2-UNI
3-CU
4-ISUblue
5-UE
6-ISUred
7-BU
8-MSU
9-DU
10-SIU

Consensus??

Exactly what I thought.

[rlh04d]

I like the idea of using OOC scheduling as a tiebreaker. I dislike the implementation. I think it would be much smarter to use non-conference RPI as opposed to simply SoS. That way, simply getting a better team for your Bracketbusters game wouldn't jump you ahead in the tiebreaker; you would have to win your games to get any benefit.

FYI, Wichita State's OOC RPI is 11th in the country. Creighton's is 19th. Iowa's is 100th, despite having the #17 SoS. The only team with a really good OOC RPI is Indiana State at 45th in the nation, though they did have the 28th best schedule.

I believe we should go alphabetically by school name, or anything else that would suit my cause.

The best team is WSU and WSU should have the tie breaker, but they don't, and no one was complaining about the tie breaker last week.

Won't matter anyway. CU loses by 12 on Saturday unless they figure something out.

Meh. I don't think it really matters. Creighton still has to beat WSU to get the #1 seed. If they do so, I think they deserve the #1 seed. If they're going to finish with the same conference record and split the two games between them, it's essentially just a coin flip either way. Whatever arbitrary measure they want to decide 1 or 2 is up to the conference. It'll be a split conference championship regardless of which of us is the 1 or 2 seed.

Now hopefully WSU repeats last year's performance in Omaha and makes this irrelevant for an outright conference title and #1 seed >=)

[bleach]

Obviously CU wants to win the conf championship but other than that, I don't see why being seeded first or second really matters. Does it really matter whether you play SIU, DU, MSU, or BU? In the second round, does anyone have an advantage whether playing UNI or ISUB or for that matter ISUR or UE?

[WhiskeySierraUniform]

Obviously CU wants to win the conf championship but other than that, I don't see why being seeded first or second really matters. Does it really matter whether you play SIU, DU, MSU, or BU? In the second round, does anyone have an advantage whether playing UNI or ISUB or for that matter ISUR or UE?

The times of the games matter. If you are the #1 seed, I believe you get the early games on Fri. and Sat. giving your team more rest between games.