NCAA continues to discuss changes to selection criteria

[ctt8410]

Pomeroy, Sagarin, and Palm all met with the NCAA yesterday to discuss the selection process. They pushed back against pressure from coaches to create one all-inclusive metric and emphasized that selection should continue to be focus on results metrics rather than predictive metrics. These are all good things imo.

My guess is that they revise the team sheets in the near future to better weight road games and they incorporate the predictive metrics more heavily in the seeding process after selection is done.

Article from DeCourcy

 

[I.I.]

Pomeroy, Sagarin, and Palm all met with the NCAA yesterday to discuss the selection process. They pushed back against pressure from coaches to create one all-inclusive metric and emphasized that selection should continue to be focus on results metrics rather than predictive metrics. These are all good things imo.

My guess is that they revise the team sheets in the near future to better weight road games and they incorporate the predictive metrics more heavily in the seeding process after selection is done.

Article from DeCourcy

As long as the "eye test" is not a criteria, I am good.

 

[goldfan83]

As long as the "eye test" is not a criteria, I am good.

Unfortunately, there will always be that and those jackholes those bubble teams that pass the bilas eye test wind up getting their asses waxed early.

 

[PhoggyBottom]

Anything that gets rid of RPI and uses legitimate and modern metrics like kenpom or Sagarin is a step in the right direction.

 

[astonmartin708]

Anything that gets rid of RPI and uses legitimate and modern metrics like kenpom or Sagarin is a step in the right direction.

Just not BPI. It shouldn't be an arbitrary ranking that favors big schools at the beginning of the season.

 

[Gold*]

Yeah the BSPI is garbage.

 

[goldfan83]

Teams like Wake Forest need to be punished harder for having a complete trash non-conference schedule.

 

[ctt8410]

Pomeroy also blogged about it. Reading between the lines, my guess is that the committee uses a slightly-tweaked version of RPI and just tries to get smarter about how they use it.

"While it’s easy to mock the committee for not grasping the nuance of resume vs. skill, many people that think they want a results-based approach struggle with the issue as well. In the coming weeks, when a commentator says a certain team “looks” like they belong in the tournament, they are implying that the record isn’t the only thing that matters. Any use of the eye test goes beyond the results of the team and veers into the idea of selecting the “best” teams."

 

[Tu Geo]

Yeah the BSPI is garbage.

An ESPN invention to promote its television contracted power leagues.

It has no credibility.

GO TU!!!!

 

[URedskin54]

BPI is the one where they don't even tell you how they calculate it right?

 

[Gold*]

Yup