Re: Bracketology 3.0
Originally Posted by
heffray
Thanks.
I pulled some data out of there that I thought would be helpful. I think its important to note that the first criteria says "...the committee may consider comparative data of individual teams, including, but not limited to..." so its not as if they are only allowed to use these, and it doesn't look like they use it in any particular order of importance. Also, I didn't see Sagarin listed anywhere, unless that is the "NCAA SRS data." Anyone know what that is?
"General Principles for Selection, Seeding, and Bracketing (Continued):
4. At any time during the process, the committee may consider comparative data of individual teams, including, but not limited to:
A. Overall Record
B. Record Against Div 1 opponents (an institution with less than six Div 1 wins may place that team in jeopardy of not being selected)
C. Record against opponents from other AQ conferences
D. Record against FBS opponents
E. Head-to-Head record
F. Record against common opponents
G. NCAA Simple Rating System (NCAA SRS) data
H. FCS Coaches Poll
I. Input from Regional Advisory Committees
Guidelines for the Establishment of the 24-Team bracket (Continued):
2. Seeding:
A. Once the 24 Championship Teams have been determined, the Committee shall seed the Top 8 teams
B. Committee members will recommend teams to be considered in the seed pool. A team must received at least 30% of the votes to be included in the seed pool. Committee members with teams under consideration may be present and participate in this vote
C. Each member will rank the teams in the seed pool via poll vote. The teams will be preliminarily ranked according to the vote totals they receive. They Committee will then review this preliminary rank and engage in discussion. The Committee will then engage in a poll vote of the seed pool teams to determine the Top 8 seeds in rank order (the output of that second poll vote)
3. Pairings:
A. The teams awarded the top 8 seeds shall receive a first-round bye and are placed in the appropriate positions in the bracket (1, 8, 4, and 5 in the upper half; 2, 7, 3, and 6 in the lower half)
B. The remaining 16 teams will play first round games and will be paired according to the geographic proximity of the top eight seeds previously placed into the bracket
C. It is the committees charge to do their best to minimize the number of flights during the championship. The NCAA mileage threshold for mandatory team travel via ground is 400 miles
D. Teams from the same conference will not be paired for first-round games (except for teams from the same conference that did not play against eachother during the regular season; such teams may play eachother in the first round)
E. Once the first-round pairings have been determined, there will be no adjustments to the bracket (e.g. a seeded team may play a conference opponent that advanced out of the first round)"
The committee doesn’t use Sagarin. It’s the 4th tie break criteria for the Big Sky auto bid.
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