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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2245099, member: 2932"]
I think the "trust their eyes" thing is a mistake.  The Committee has to consider roughly 80 teams in putting together the bracket.  (The 68 that are in and the dozen or so bubble teams.)  There is zero chance that anyone on the committee has watched more than 10-12 of those teams play more than one or two complete games.  Even assuming you always watched games involving two tournament teams (that is, you never watched a game not involving a team outside the top 80), just to watch 5 games of each tournament team, you would need to watch 200 games.  That's at least 400 hours of watching basketball - ten full work weeks over a roughly 15-week regular season.  Even then you are getting a very small sample of each team's games that could be wildly misleading.

In reality, no one on the committee is doing this.  If they're not using stats, however imperfect, they're relying on gut feelings, what they happen to have watched, and the feedback effect from the press.
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