Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4945883, member: 1969"]
But now I'll answer seriously.

[B]Part #1:  [/B]Before I start, as I have asked you a few times how would you have the committee select teams.  Just give them the W-L of each team on a sheet and that's it?   Now pick 36 at larges, based on what the committee has watched and whatever way they decipher records.   The eye test and standard W-L records?   What else -- perhaps I am missing something.

For those claiming it should be based on what people saw in the games...  even if someone loves college basketball how much college basketball can someone reasonably watch.

And then we have teams from lower conferences that are pretty strong, could be at large contenders but are shown less - Princeton, Drake, Indiana St, Grand Canyon, SMU, St Mary's.   Are you watching all these teams play?

And if you are watching all these teams play.   How often are you watching them play?   3-4 times each.

If you watched Syracuse play against Oregon (as it was on National TV against nothing else), Miami, and Georgetown, you might say hey this is a good team.   But if your sample was Tennessee, UNC, and Pitt you would think far differently about this team.    [B]Let's take math completely out of it, and talk about human sampling with eyes.   Are human samples of 3-4 observations not problematic in themselves?[/B]

Again no reasonable human can watch a large amount of games, of EVERY team in the process.

Which leads me to the conclusion.  Humans need some data/metrics to make decisions.     This in every form of life.    It doesn't mean those decisions are being taken over by computers.    It just means humans are being provided help to make better subjective decisions.

[B]Part 2 coming later today.[/B]
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?