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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3266137, member: 1969"]
Yeah, I see your point,  There is a bunch of quantitative measures, but no magic number that is spit out, so you do have do decipher through them all to see which ones are more importance to make a judgment, so that is open to human bias.

I will say though that I really don't think there has been a bias for the back of the season games in what I have seen.  First, there is no accepted quant for the end of the season like last 10, that they can emphasize when they are judging what quants are more important.   And secondly, as explained below the human bias may go the other way.

Just think of the following committee scenario -- one of the key things they probably beat down on the decision makers all week is the core principles --  one of them being "time of game does not matter".    So when discussing teams they are probably so careful to make sure they are following that principle, that they make errors the other way.

Its no different if the boss tells me to make sure I give just consideration to "x" factor in choosing amongst various options.  That factor probably will be over emphasized by me in my option choice.
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