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Message: [QUOTE="nyclax, post: 4642296, member: 8261"] they are not SUPPOSED to factor in recent play but they are human beings and it's possible recency bias can affect their thinking. if you end the season on a huge winning streak, maybe that RPI starts to look a little better or that bad loss can be forgiven. i don't have any data to know if that's true or not. someone should do an analysis of bubble teams over the last decade or so to see if there's maybe an unconscious bias towards teams who enter into the discussion hot/pass the eye test over teams who limp into selection sunday. but that's well above my pay grade. if i had the choice i'd rather be playing well at the end of the year than at the beginning, all else being equal, regardless of what happened with notre dame last year [/QUOTE]