Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What if there were a D1A and D1AA in BBall?

So you have the FB confs in D1A but include the Sun Belt and BE BBall onlies to get to 131 teams. You can then have a 48 team NCAAT. Would that be a good thing? By doing that you eliminate the little guy, and upsets are fun and exciting. But upsets make it easier for the next team they play. Also having a D1A and D1AA, you will get more talent per team. In BBall one guy can make a difference. You can go anywhere you want. However if you split D1A and D1AA would a kid who is choosing between being a career 6th man at SU or a starter for Hofstra pick Hofstra if they are D1AA? Having a split may very well add depth to every D1A team and make games even better.

Edit
I forgot to add that every teams reg season sched would be a lot harder. No more cupcake games. In this case confs would likely play more conf games. The B11 would likely go from 18 to 20. The ACC, SEC, and B12 from 16 to 22. The BE from 18 to 22. The P10 would remain at 18. Even so teams would have to fit in about 10 more OOC games and there are only 131 D1A teams to choose from. So we should see a lot more games between the Big 6 confs.


I made a bracket based on this year. I tried to keep the seedings as close to possible but had to move some teams to different regions to fill in holes. There are 43 D1A teams in this year NCAAT. However I only used 42 of them since both Temple and Akron wouldnt have gotten at larges. Only would could be the MAC champ. I then took the 6 highest seeded NIT teams to fill it in. So here is what it would look like:


East South MW West
1 Pitt UNC UL Uconn
2 Duke OU MSU Memphis
3 Nova SU KU Missou
4 Wake Utah FSU Wash
5 UCLA WV Illinois Purdue
6 Texas ASU BC Marq
7 LSU Clemson Cal BYU
8 A&M OSU Tenn Okie St
9 Mich Temple USC MD
10 Minn Wisc WKU Utah St
11 Zona SD St Fla Auburn
12 Miss St PSU ND Va Tech


So the Top 4 seeds get 1st round byes. The rest would play as follows:

UCLA/Miss St WV/PSU Illinois/ND Purdue/Va Tech
Texas/Zona ASU/SD St BC/Fla Marq/Auburn
LSU/Minn Clemson/Wic Cal/WKU BYU/Utah St
A&M/Mich OSU/Temple Tenn/USC Okie St/MD

The the potential 2nd round games of:

Pitt/A&M UNC/OSU UL/Tenn Uconn/Okie St
Duke/LSU OU/Clemson MSU/Cal Memphis/BYU
Nova/Texas SU/ASU KU/BC Missou/Marq
Wake/UCLA Utah/WV FSU/Illinois Wash/Purdue


So would this be bad or good for CBBall?

















Sunday, March 15, 2009

Evaluating the Bracket guys

Getting the number of teams in is easy. Usually the last 3 in or out is all that needs to be chosen. So a monkey should get 62 of 65 each year. What you really are doing is picking 3 of 6 teams to make the field. Not very hard. What is hard is the seeding. Well I posted my bracket earlier, my friend Cuseman made a bracket and we compared to Lunardi and Palm. We awarded 3 points for a correct pick and negative 1 for each seed missed. So if you picked SU as a 3 seed you get 3 points. If you picked SU as a 4 seed you get -1 point. And the winner was....

Palm 52 points
Lunardi 34 points
Cuseman 19 points
King Otto 0 points

Everyone had 64 of 65 teams missing on Zona. King Otto and Cuseman had SD St. Palm St Marys. And Lunardi Creighton. Cuseman put his together from scratch from 5pm to 6pm right before the brackets came. I have made a few brackets the last few weeks. But it isnt my job and I never went into the depth that the "pros" do. Palm beat up on Lunardi. I think we should all stop following the fraud Lunardi and use Palm from now on.

Final Bracket

East
1 Pitt
16 Chattanooga/Bama St

8 A&M
9 Miss St

4 OSU/Purdue winner
13 WKU

5 Utah
12 MD

2 Duke
15 Robert Morris

7 Gonzaga
10 Michigan

3 KU
14 Cornell

6 UCLA
11 Temple

South
1 UNC
16 Morehead St

8 LSU
9 Butler

4 SU
13 Binghamton

5 ASU
12 Siena

2 MSU
15 E Tenn St

7 Clemson
10 Cal

3 Nova
14 Stephen F Austin

6 Okie St
11 Minn

Midwest
1 UL
16 Morgan St

8 Texas
9 BYU

4 Wash
13 American

5 Illinois
12 Cle St

2 OU
15 Radford

7 Xavier
10 BC

3 Wake
14 Akron

6 Tenn
11 Wisc

West
1 Memphis
16 CS Northridge

8 Marq
9 Dayton

4 FSU
13 VCU

5 WV
12 SD St

2 UConn
15 Portland St

7 USC
10 Utah St

3 Missou
14 ND St

6 OSU/Purdue loser
11 No Iowa


Last Six Teams In (last in first)
SD St
MD
Wisc
Minn
BC
Mich

Last Six Out
Zona
St Marys
Creighton
Auburn
Florida
South Carolina

Multi Bid Confs
7 ACC, BE, B11
6 B12
5 P10
3 A10, SEC, MWC
2 Horizon

Monday, March 9, 2009

NCAA Projections

Finding 65 teams is pretty easy this year. But the seedings will be hard.

1 Pittsburgh North Carolina Oklahoma Memphis
16 Morehead St./ Alabama St. Radford Morgan St. CSU Northridge





8 Texas A&M Brigham Young LSU Marquette
9 Ohio St. Texas California Wisconsin





4 UCLA Tennessee Syracuse Missouri
13 American U. VA Commonwealth Northern Iowa Stephen F. Austin





5 Clemson Illinois Florida St. Utah
12 Siena West. Kentucky San Diego St. Maryland





2 Duke Louisville Michigan St. Connecticut
15 Cornell Charleston Robert Morris E. Tennessee St.





7 Dayton Arizona St. Gonzaga Purdue
10 Minnesota Boston College South Carolina Utah St.





3 Villanova Kansas Wake Forest Washington
14 Binghamton Buffalo North Dakota St Weber St.





6 Oklahoma St. Xavier West Virginia Butler
11 Florida Michigan Arizona St. Mary's



By Conf
BE 7
ACC 7
B11 7
B12 6
P10 5
SEC 4
MWC 3
WCC 2
A10 2


Last 6 in (starting with last one in)
Maryland
San Diego St
St Marys
Arizona
Florida
Michigan


Last 12 out
UAB
Creighton
New Mexico
UNLV
USC
Temple
Illinois St.
Davidson
Miami (FL)
Penn St.
Virginia Tech
Northwestern

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

NCAA Projections

Here is my prediction of the brackets


East South Midwest West
1 Pittsburgh North Carolina Oklahoma Connecticut
16 Morgan St./Alabama St Long Beach St. Tenn-Martin Virginia Military





8 Oklahoma St. Texas Wisconsin California
9 Dayton Arizona St. Utah St. Texas A&M





4 Utah Missouri Villanova Clemson
13 Miami (OH) West. Kentucky George Mason Davidson





5 Illinois Xavier Florida St. Purdue
12 St. Mary's Georgetown UAB Siena





2 Duke Michigan St. Memphis Kansas
15 Cornell Robert Morris North Dakota St Belmont





7 West Virginia Gonzaga Marquette Brigham Young
10 Creighton South Carolina Minnesota Ohio St.





3 Tennessee Louisville Wake Forest Washington
14 American U. Stephen F. Austin Vermont Weber St.





6 UCLA LSU Butler Syracuse
11 Maryland Arizona Florida Boston College


Last 10 Out
UNLV
Rhode Island
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Miami (FL)
Virginia Tech
USC
Providence
Michigan
Penn St.

By Conf
BE 8
ACC 7
B11 6
B12 6
P10 5
SEC 4

KOR Value

Since I forgot Opp's Opp Win % these are flawed. It helps smaller schools to have a higher ranking. And thus this will be my last ranking for this year. Hopefully next year I will have it fixed and can test my formula for accuracy. Below are my ranking of every Major Conf team, Top Mid Majors, at least one team from the little confs, and the worst teams in CBBall. I also included my conf ranking sand the BE team rankings. You will see teams like Utah St high due to the bias I mentioned above. But I think looking just at the Major Conf teams it could be a good indicator (see 2nd list).

Rank Team KOR
1 Uconn 0.9997
2 Memphis 0.9506
3 Pitt 0.9326
4 Oklahoma 0.9297
5 Duke 0.9179
6 UNC 0.9156
7 Utah St 0.8953
8 Butler 0.8905
9 MSU 0.8823
10 Nova 0.8667
11 Louisville 0.8602
12 KU 0.8543
13 Xavier 0.8466
14 Dayton 0.8455
15 Wake 0.8372
16 Utah 0.8335
17 Siena 0.8317
18 LSU 0.8298
19 Purdue 0.8297
20 BYU 0.8277
21 Clemson 0.8251
22 Marquette 0.8236
23 Gonzaga 0.8195
24 FSU 0.8144
25 Wash 0.8133
26 St Marys 0.8104
27 Creighton 0.8087
28 Niagra 0.8085
29 Illinois 0.8058
30 Davidson 0.7927
31 Missou 0.7903
32 Cal 0.7866
33 WV 0.7774
34 ND St 0.7744
35 UCLA 0.7727
36 Illinois St 0.7692
37 WKU 0.7689
38 UAB 0.7675
39 RI 0.7649
40 ASU 0.7642
41 American 0.7626
42 SU 0.7599
43 Tenn 0.7569
44 VCU 0.7564
45 George Mason 0.7497
46 Okie St 0.7472
47 Vermont 0.7419
48 Minn 0.7418
49 BC 0.7379
50 Texas 0.7348
51 Tulsa 0.7282
52 A&M 0.7260
53 SD St 0.7209
54 So Car 0.7207
55 UNLV 0.7172
56 OSU 0.7071
57 Temple 0.7041
58 Stephen F Austin 0.7006
59 Wisc 0.6996
60 Weber St 0.6962
61 Miami 0.6851
62 Zona 0.6818
63 Maryland 0.6815
64 PSU 0.6766
65 Tenn Martin 0.6735
66 UK 0.6688
67 Buffalo 0.6683
68 K St 0.6668
69 Cincy 0.6658
70 Robert Morris 0.6621
71 NM 0.6604
72 Mich 0.6577
73 Belmont 0.6559
74 VT 0.6525
75 Florida 0.6480
76 Georgetown 0.6467
77 Houston 0.6431
78 Nebraska 0.6386
79 Cornell 0.6352
80 USC 0.6349
81 Providence 0.6315
82 NW 0.6247
83 Baylor 0.6246
84 Auburn 0.6242
85 Liberty 0.6180
86 Morgan St 0.6167
87 ND 0.6058
88 Ole Miss 0.6057
89 Bama St 0.6009
90 NC St 0.5953
91 Vandy 0.5783
92 WSU 0.5752
93 Miss St 0.5707
94 Pacific 0.5659
95 Stanford 0.5630
96 Ark 0.5594
97 Seton Hall 0.5415
98 Iowa 0.5297
99 Bama 0.5149
100 St Johns 0.5125
101 ISU 0.5115
102 UVA 0.5035
103 Oregon St 0.4617
104 TT 0.4498
105 GT 0.4398
106 UGA 0.3958
107 USF 0.3861
108 Rutgers 0.3839
109 Oregon 0.3550
110 Colorado 0.3326
111 Depaul 0.3252
112 Indiana 0.2814
113 MD Eastern Shore 0.2577
114 Grambling 0.2369
115 NC Central 0.1464
116 Alcorn St 0.1403
117 Sac St 0.1042
118 NJIT 0.0002

Rank Team KOR Conf
1 Uconn 0.9997 BE
2 Pitt 0.9326 BE
3 Oklahoma 0.9297 B12
4 Duke 0.9179 ACC
5 UNC 0.9156 ACC
6 MSU 0.8823 B11
7 Nova 0.8667 BE
8 Louisville 0.8602 BE
9 KU 0.8543 B12
10 Wake 0.8372 ACC
11 LSU 0.8298 SEC
12 Purdue 0.8297 B11
13 Clemson 0.8251 ACC
14 Marquette 0.8236 BE
15 FSU 0.8144 ACC
16 Wash 0.8133 P10
17 Illinois 0.8058 B11
18 Missou 0.7903 B12
19 Cal 0.7866 P10
20 WV 0.7774 BE
21 UCLA 0.7727 P10
22 ASU 0.7642 P10
23 SU 0.7599 BE
24 Tenn 0.7569 SEC
25 Okie St 0.7472 B12
26 Minn 0.7418 B11
27 BC 0.7379 ACC
28 Texas 0.7348 B12
29 A&M 0.7260 B12
30 So Car 0.7207 SEC
31 OSU 0.7071 B11
32 Wisc 0.6996 B11
33 Miami 0.6851 ACC
34 Zona 0.6818 P10
35 Maryland 0.6815 ACC
36 PSU 0.6766 B11
37 UK 0.6688 SEC
38 K St 0.6668 B12
39 Cincy 0.6658 BE
40 Mich 0.6577 B11
41 VT 0.6525 ACC
42 Florida 0.6480 SEC
43 Georgetown 0.6467 BE
44 Nebraska 0.6386 B12
45 USC 0.6349 P10
46 Providence 0.6315 BE
47 NW 0.6247 B11
48 Baylor 0.6246 B12
49 Auburn 0.6242 SEC
50 ND 0.6058 BE
51 Ole Miss 0.6057 SEC
52 NC St 0.5953 ACC
53 Vandy 0.5783 SEC
54 WSU 0.5752 P10
55 Miss St 0.5707 SEC
56 Stanford 0.5630 P10
57 Ark 0.5594 SEC
58 Seton Hall 0.5415 BE
59 Iowa 0.5297 B11
60 Bama 0.5149 SEC
61 St Johns 0.5125 BE
62 ISU 0.5115 B12
63 UVA 0.5035 ACC
64 Oregon St 0.4617 P10
65 TT 0.4498 B12
66 GT 0.4398 ACC
67 UGA 0.3958 SEC
68 USF 0.3861 BE
69 Rutgers 0.3839 BE
70 Oregon 0.3550 P10
71 Colorado 0.3326 B12
72 Depaul 0.3252 BE
73 Indiana 0.2814 B11

Conf Rank
ACC 0.7171
B11 0.6760
BE 0.6699
B12 0.6672
P10 0.6408
SEC 0.6228

Team KOR
Uconn 0.9997
Pitt 0.9326
Nova 0.8667
Louisville 0.8602
Marquette 0.8236
WV 0.7774
SU 0.7599
Cincy 0.6658
Georgetown 0.6467
Providence 0.6315
ND 0.6058
Seton Hall 0.5415
St Johns 0.5125
USF 0.3861
Rutgers 0.3839
Depaul 0.3252

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