And your 2019 FCS selection committee chairman is.....

[EC8CH]

I think we can all agree that Southern Speed will now be considered when seeding the bracket.

Yotes did lose to Houston Baptist

[heffray]

All 8 seeded teams won their first game last year.

Good point. The sides of the bracket seemed lopsided if I remember correctly.

[tony]

Good point. The sides of the bracket seemed lopsided if I remember correctly.

Yeah, seems like pretty much every team that had won a playoff game the year before was on one side of the bracket.

[Greta Van Herd]

Meh. Don’t you have to win all your playoff games anyway to be champion?

There’s no way an undefeated or even 1-loss Bison team (this year) doesn’t get seeded #1 or #2.

Take care of what you can control, the rest is just noise.

[89MTBISON]

Meh. Don’t you have to win all your playoff games anyway to be champion?

There’s no way an undefeated or even 1-loss Bison team (this year) doesn’t get seeded #1 or #2.

Take care of what you can control, the rest is just noise.

If this were actually true, bisonville would cease to exist. We accomplish a LOT here, with all the noise. Get with the program.

[Greta Van Herd]

If this were actually true, bisonville would cease to exist.

As much as I would love to , I cant argue with you there!

[bisonaudit]

All 8 seeded teams won their first game last year.

Well, the seed is worth about 6 points, and variance, and sample size, and perhaps I'll answer this more comprehensively when I have the data in front of me but, yeah, not giving the committee much credit for that.

[bisonaudit]

Just curious what have been the worst examples of this in the past? I'm guessing JSU ever being seeded

There were two bad ones last year.

Maine shouldn’t have been seeded. The team Sagarin had 7th (Maine’s seed) would have been about an 11.5 point favorite on a neutral field, nearly 80% to win.

Weber State shouldn’t have been seeded. They’d have been a 13 point dog to Sagarin’s #2, 83%.

When you add in the fact that a seed confers about a 5 point bump for a team in round 2 over whoever they play by virtue of home field and a week off, this is a big problem for the tournament. Colgate, per Sagarin was the 9th best team in the bracket last year, the committee made them the 8 seed. A ‘mis-seed’ so small you can’t call it a mistake. 51%/49% on a neutral field. But, if they had to play the week before and then travel they’d be about 42% to win instead of 56% at home after a week off.

[MNLonghorn10]

There were two bad ones last year.

Maine shouldn’t have been seeded. The team Sagarin had 7th (Maine’s seed) would have been about an 11.5 point favorite on a neutral field, nearly 80% to win.

Weber State shouldn’t have been seeded. They’d have been a 13 point dog to Sagarin’s #2, 83%.

When you add in the fact that a seed confers about a 5 point bump for a team in round 2 over whoever they play by virtue of home field and a week off, this is a big problem for the tournament. Colgate, per Sagarin was the 9th best team in the bracket last year, the committee made them the 8 seed. A ‘mis-seed’ so small you can’t call it a mistake. 51%/49% on a neutral field. But, if they had to play the week before and then travel they’d be about 42% to win instead of 56% at home after a week off.

we sleep while audit stays up all night crunching these #'s for us. I dont think we appreciate him enough

[gumby013]

we sleep while audit stays up all night crunching these #'s for us. I dont think we appreciate him enough

Needs to add in the McRib factor for all teams.

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