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Message: [QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5104496, member: 237"] I’ve got a mathematics degree from SU Matt. You have breached the point of being reasonable a ways back. Many others have pointed out the fallacies in how you have sourced your argument. Viewership is impacted by specific programs as every single year you analyze will show you. The problems with certain programs has pulled down that viewership given the boost it provides to the average viewership. Hence you have to open the file not just read the chart- analysis. The issue with your logic is you are assuming that the viewership numbers ( which don’t trend with the continued increase in aggregate cbb revenues) clearly show a reduced interest in the tournament as a whole. That can’t be concluded without breaking down the data much deeper and looking at numerous other variables revenue not withstanding. Larger programs with longstanding success drive viewership up over the years and you can see the peaks and valleys if you open the data up. The top 10 fan bases have a big impact on these figures and always have. This is why viewership data skews the data and the sample size of years doesn’t matter much in this chart. Now open up the analysis further and your conclusion is expansion is bad- well if viewership numbers aren’t moving up with the current model- and specific programs have driven spikes in that viewership, then naturally expansion via volume makes sense to move the needle. That both can possibly get more games from large programs that might benefit because they have fallen back some as well as more overall programs and fans having a vested interest in the tourney. That’s just simple math. Keeping things the same will drive consolidation as NIL dries up if there is little incentive. Conference tournaments are fun but they don’t move the needle or equate to being part of the tourney in the bigger picture. If you are rooting for failure then I guess your logic makes sense. That said there is no formula that correlates expansion with weakened support and interest for cbb. Unless you want to fund my time I’m not spending hours to build a database of every game to break down each teams impacts on viewership paired with other things that could impact viewership while then crossing over all the revenue streams, on demand streaming volume that isn’t tabulated and putting together a predictive model. I’m sure someone already has done that just not published and likely has put forth analysis to help with the consideration of expansion . Anyways I’m sure your conclusion is better than everyone else’s no matter what. Nice political bs too… [/QUOTE]

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