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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4602708, member: 1969"] Imagine stating a system that will give 4 of 36 at large bids to non P6 conferences favours them. Wow. This is not a Utah St or Florida Atlantic issue. Never has been, Its quite simple the system does not discriminate against P6 conferences, and they differentiate the bids amongst those conferences based on how P6 conferences do OOC. 1) The B12. SEC, and B10 did well this year they dominate the # of seeds and top seed lines. (23 or 24 of the 38 P6 bids) 2) The ACC and the P12 do crap in OOC and they get punished. Big East does just OK (they get 14 of 38 P6 bids) There is a reason every year by the end of December, I am able to predict the structure of the NCAA tournament - in terms of which conference dominates bids, top seeds lines and who will get punished. It's because I understand the system will give almost all the # of bids to P6 conferences (which they deserve for the most part) and I understand how they will be split because of what conferences will get the Q1, Q2, (Net or RPI in the past) boost. The one thing that is always constant though in my predictions is that there will not be many bids for the smaller conferences. Because that is not how the system works -- it is a system that favours number of Q1 and Q2 wins. It can be claimed perhaps that it rewards the top performing P6 OOC conferences too much, and punishes the lower performing ones too much, You are trying to equate Pitt's P6 record of 16-11 with all other P6 teams, but there is a massive difference in schedule strength. P6 schedule strength is far from homogenous. The ACC did not earn the right to claim they were anywhere near equal footing with anybody other than the P12. The gap between them and the top 3 is huge, [B]If Pitt misses the tournament - Its not because the system favours the little guy. Its not because of Utah St they are missing the tournament. - Its because the system punishes he big conferences that sucks the most before the end of December. They can look at how the ACC did before end of December. [/B] I presented all the data above - the ACC was not even close in quality wins, bad losses, Conferecne RPI and Conference NET, OOC win % -- even if you exclude the two worst teams Louisville and Florida St they are still behind a fair bit in some metrics, although that does close the gap a fair amount. [/QUOTE]

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