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[QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 4644206, member: 8152"]
Ah yes, my favorite, the eye test. Remember how that worked out for Syracuse the last time it was used? Eye test and margin of victory were the sole reasons Cuse got hosed out of the 6/7 seed range per results and data and was instead the effective 12 and “last team in.”  Eye test.

Eye test is trash, it’s not rooted in any kind of reality because my eye test can be different from your eye test can be different from another person’s eye test. It’s nonsense.

The reason that almost all serious bracketology posts form a strong consensus by the end is that the data is the data and with the selection criteria we are given to work with, there is very little wiggle room in how we interpret that data.

A good example of the wiggle room right now is: Stevens and I are split on the ordering of PSU/UMCP, how much does head to head factory in overcoming PSU’s better wins?  But it doesn’t allow for crazy off the wall assessments of teams that eye test does because you’re tied to guidelines on what you’re using to evaluate.

Who knows what I’m looking for with an eye test. That’s just a media poll. Do you really want your team to be at the mercy of a group of people’s (who may or may not even watch these teams play) entirely subjective eye test?
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