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<blockquote data-quote="MtnWasp" data-source="post: 1003912" data-attributes="member: 4110"><p>They can formalize the selection criteria all they want, but they have not implemented a scheduling technique to eliminate the bias of initial rankings. Gaming the system is clever. Until you devise a systematic non-conference scheduling procedure to eliminate the bias, clever coaches will continue to game the system. And I don't fault them at all.</p><p></p><p>The catch is that you have to be ranked highly going in to be able to game the system in that fashion.</p><p></p><p>It is probably not practical, but you could open the season with a pre-season tournament, like a mirror of post-season NCAAT, but with some key differences:</p><p></p><p>1. Initial Seedings are random (picked from a hat) and adjustable and includes all 352 eligible teams.</p><p>2. It is not single elimination: Winners go on to play winners, losers move on to play losers, then by similar records alternating home and away or do it between Semesters at Vegas or some neutral site. This means scheduling as adjusted "as we go," to systematically match teams of similar records to progressively sort teams by performance. Do that for 7 to 8 games for every team.</p><p>3. Establish pre-conference team and conference rankings based on their record in the pre-season tournament.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise we have to embrace the post-season selection and seeding messiness. As we always have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MtnWasp, post: 1003912, member: 4110"] They can formalize the selection criteria all they want, but they have not implemented a scheduling technique to eliminate the bias of initial rankings. Gaming the system is clever. Until you devise a systematic non-conference scheduling procedure to eliminate the bias, clever coaches will continue to game the system. And I don't fault them at all. The catch is that you have to be ranked highly going in to be able to game the system in that fashion. It is probably not practical, but you could open the season with a pre-season tournament, like a mirror of post-season NCAAT, but with some key differences: 1. Initial Seedings are random (picked from a hat) and adjustable and includes all 352 eligible teams. 2. It is not single elimination: Winners go on to play winners, losers move on to play losers, then by similar records alternating home and away or do it between Semesters at Vegas or some neutral site. This means scheduling as adjusted "as we go," to systematically match teams of similar records to progressively sort teams by performance. Do that for 7 to 8 games for every team. 3. Establish pre-conference team and conference rankings based on their record in the pre-season tournament. Otherwise we have to embrace the post-season selection and seeding messiness. As we always have. [/QUOTE]
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