Scholarship table
Disagree completely. The entire season should count equally. Just like every other sport…but college football. It’s about performance over the course of the season. Not who gets hot at the end.
I like that the games that matter most in college football come at or near the end.I also think the college basketball teams who improve over the season and who peak late are more deserving and more fun to watch in the tournament than those who play well in November but are on life support in March.All games matter, bur for seeding purposes and choosing the which side of the bubble teams end up on I like more emphasis on the final 6 weeks - including conference tournaments.
CFB uses a pretty flawed system to determine who is in their playoff. Games matter at the end because the system is flawed, not because they matter more at the end.
Honestly I'm just mostly annoyed by bilsu's constant negativity.
You can block me, if I bother you so much.
I like that the games that matter most in college football come at or near the end.I also think the college basketball teams who improve over the season and who peak late are more deserving and more fun to watch in the tournament than those who play well in November but are on life support in March.All games matter, bur for seeding purposes and choosing which side of the bubble teams end up on I like more emphasis on the final 6 weeks - including conference tournaments.
Conference championship games in Big 10 and SEC are big determining factors on who gets seeded 1 through 4 in CFB championship playoff.
I think a team's entire body of work should matter. But I do think there's something to be said for an 18-12 team that finished 2-8 perhaps being a little less deserving than an 18-12 team that finished 8-2. Maybe there's some way the computers can account for all of it? Or maybe not. I don't profess to know.
you want to punish teams for a “Wojo finish” to the season?
For me, this actually underlies why it's better to take the whole body of work. Because that 8-2 could easily be the WCC team that beats a bunch of cupcake caliber opponents while losing to Gonzaga and St Mary's while the 2-8 team is a Big 12 team that loses to all top-60 opponents while beating Baylor and Kansas.Because leagues are so disparate in quality, taking the whole season is the only way to judge them fairly. If you're a mid or low major, November and December might be your only chances at quality wins. Even a high major might see a front or back loaded conference schedule."Last 10" as a metric is problematic because no one will have the same last 10. Even if you try to do it by date, some smaller leagues are done with conference play and into tournaments while other at-large candidates are still in their league play. The new system is much better and more equitable.
When figuring “last 10” or some variant of it certainly we have computers capable of adding a weighted strength of schedule component to the equation. Maybe it would make things harder to predict for geniuses like Joe Lunardi or Jerry Palm but it would nevertheless improve the quality of the tournament.
The bolded is a good point. I do feel the last 10 should be applied just to all the teams on the bubble. The totality of their season is still considered but you add the last 10 for the 5-10 bubble teams that are in the running for the last spots. Buzz's A&M team last season is a perfect example - they should have been in the tournament..I mean look at Rutger's resume compared to A&M.
Perhaps Buzz’s team shouldn’t have underperformed early.
Are you sure it would do that? And even if you could prove it does, is that really important?
And perhaps Buzz shouldn't have created the softest nonconference schedule in the SEC.
Well despite the weak Non-Con schedule Ken Pom (which I believe the committee does use as a component - Brew?) A&M was ranked 43 and Rutgers 74 after their last games of their respective conference tournaments.
Yeah, I don’t feel sorry for Buzz or his team. Just win more games and/or play a better schedule - 2 things in your control - and you won’t be on the bubble.And I’d say the same if it happened to Marquette.