We could’ve won this tournament

[Uncle Rico]

It’s not. Not only are you wrong, you don’t even understand your own argument. It sucks that Marquette lost but calling it random chance is a cope by you.

No it isn’t.  The tournament is a crapshoot and I’ve been saying it for years, so I guess it was coping when Marquette wasn’t in the tournament.  Listen, you’ve been proven wrong over and over.  Your tenacity in being wrong is admirable

[Uncle Rico]

Ben Gold will be an all-American next year and the winner of the NCAA tournament is entirely random.  Things I’ve learned this March.

Learning is good

[FartyEightHours]

We don’t need NCAA tourney play and athletic prowess.  Just put all the team names in a hat.

[Uncle Rico]

We don’t need NCAA tourney play and athletic prowess.  Just put all the team names in a hat.

Why would you do that?

[FartyEightHours]

Random gonna random

[Judge Smails]

The tourney may not be the best way to determine the national champion but it is practical and incredibly entertaining. While there is an element of luck on whom you meet on your path to the National Championship, you nevertheless have to win 6 games in a row against good / great teams.

[5DollarPitcher]

We don’t need NCAA tourney play and athletic prowess.  Just put all the team names in a hat.

Honestly, lol. That’s the argument they’re making.

[5DollarPitcher]

No it isn’t.  The tournament is a crapshoot and I’ve been saying it for years, so I guess it was coping when Marquette wasn’t in the tournament.  Listen, you’ve been proven wrong over and over.  Your tenacity in being wrong is admirable

It was a cope then too. We weren’t in it or we lost in the first round. Crapshoot!

Bet people weren’t calling it a crapshoot when we were going to Sweet Sixteens and Elite Eights…

[Uncle Rico]

It was a cope then too. We weren’t in it or we lost in the first round. Crapshoot!

Bet people weren’t calling it a crapshoot when we were going to Sweet Sixteens and Elite Eights…

Sure I was.  Because that’s what it is

[5DollarPitcher]

Sure I was.  Because that’s what it is

Then you don’t really understand sports at all.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Nobody here even mentioned the NHL playoffs.

The best regular season team loses regularly in the NBA playoffs.

Do you understand that or are you, well, dumb?

You are literally too stupid to insult.

[Uncle Rico]

Then you don’t really understand sports at all.

No, I understand sports just fine.  You don’t understand sports.  You’ve made that quite clear. 

[5DollarPitcher]

You are literally too stupid to insult.

RIP your argument.

[Uncle Rico]

RIP your argument.

No, Vander is correct

[lawdog77]

Individual games are not a crapshoot. The tournament in its totality is a crapshoot.

[Uncle Rico]

Individual games are not a crapshoot. The tournament in its totality is a crapshoot.

Yup

[5DollarPitcher]

No, I understand sports just fine.  You don’t understand sports.  You’ve made that quite clear.

Games of sport are randomness manifest, which can be loosely predicted by assigning probabilities based on historical statistics but are also subject to any number of “random” externalities. Also historical statistics have no actual impact on future results and players that have historically been statistically good can then subsequently perform statistically poorly and vice versa.

By arguing that the NCAA tournament is a “crapshoot” because there is inherent randomness and irregularity you are thereby arguing that all sports are a crapshoot and some formats are slightly less crapshoot than others. In which case - why play? Why not just put the probabilities into a computer and let it tell us who’s the “best” and hang a banner for that.

[5DollarPitcher]

Individual games are not a crapshoot. The tournament in its totality is a crapshoot.

Historical fact would actually indicate it’s the exact opposite of this.

[Uncle Rico]

Games of sport are randomness manifest, which can be loosely predicted by assigning probabilities based on historical statistics but are also subject to any number of “random” externalities. Also historical statistics have no actual impact on future results and players that have historically been statistically good can then subsequently perform statistically poorly and vice versa.

By arguing that the NCAA tournament is a “crapshoot” because there is inherent randomness and irregularity you are thereby arguing that all sports are a crapshoot and some formats are slightly less crapshoot than others. In which case - why play? Why not just put the probabilities into a computer and let it tell us who’s the “best” and hang a banner for that.

You play because it is a crapshoot.  It isn’t complicated unless you have a small brain

[5DollarPitcher]

No, Vander is correct

Thanks Judge Judy

[5DollarPitcher]

You play because it is a crapshoot.  It isn’t complicated unless you have a small brain

So you are acknowledging that your argument is that all sports are inherently crapshoot?

[Uncle Rico]

So you are acknowledging that your argument is that all sports are inherently crapshoot?

I’m stating fact that the NCAA tournament is a crapshoot.  Each sport has randomness and luck.  It’s not complicated unless you have a very small brain like a squirrel

[1SE]

The only sport where it makes sense to have multi-game playoffs is baseball because you have to put together a full pitching rotation.

Every other sport should be one and done at tourney time - we - like every other team in the tourney - controlled our own destiny. We played like crap (b/c of Tyler's thumb or otherwise) and we deserved to lose. We should have done better and we didn't.



Anything else is copium that only serves to prolong coleitis. 

[5DollarPitcher]

I’m stating fact that the NCAA tournament is a crapshoot.  Each sport has randomness and luck.  It’s not complicated unless you have a very small brain like a squirrel

You keep saying it’s not complicated unless you have a small brain while simultaneously not actually defending your point with facts, logic, anything really. That’s kinda why it seems like you lost…

[lawdog77]

Historical fact would actually indicate it’s the exact opposite of this.

When was the last time anyone had a perfect bracket?