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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3265793, member: 1969"]
I have to respectfully disagree with most of your post.

The committee makes it quite clear that it is a quantitative process, and the list of key factors they have is all quantitative.   They never talk much about qualitative analysis, although they do say members watch games, so there is some element, I agree..  But when asked its    "Who you played, and who you beat".    I think you are incorrect in stating that the committee uses quants to wean, and quals to seed and select.

The teams getting and in seedings in the last 5 years are fairly correlated with the numbers, and there really has been no evidence of significant impact of eye test or other biases in their selections.

And also there is no real evidence that they are veering off their stated emphasis that time of year does not matter, or that natural bias has moved them off this principle.  OOC matters just as much as the regular season.   They state it and it has been evident in what they have done.   Oklahoma in 2018 for example, and there were a few others that year, that crashed down the stretch in conference play and still got in because of big OOC scalps..   We have also benefited from OOC in 2016, and penalized by it in 2017.
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