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Want to figure out which bubble teams will make the NCAA tournament? You don't need to parse through every team's resume and try to understand the inner workings of the selection committee. Just follow this eight-word set of instructions:Add a team's KenPom rank to their RPI.I've chosen to call the resulting number the Easiest Bubble Solver, or EBS. Here's how the EBS has performed over the past five years:2007: 62 of 65 (Old Dominion, Texas Tech, and Stanford instead of Air Force, Clemson, and Missouri State)2008: 62 of 65 (Villanova, South Alabama, and Kentucky instead of Ohio State, Virginia Tech, and Illinois State)2009: 63 of 65 (Maryland and Dayton instead of San Diego State and Florida)2010: 64 of 65 (Florida instead of Virginia Tech)2011: 66 of 68 (USC and VCU instead of Virginia Tech and Saint Mary's)
in the end, EMAW will always win.
missing 3 teams isn't necessarily all that impressive, seeing as about 55 or so or complete givens
Quote from: ChiCat on February 06, 2012, 11:55:49 AMmissing 3 teams isn't necessarily all that impressive, seeing as about 55 or so or complete givensUsing that simple of a formula it seems to be pretty good.
Assuming x number of one bid leagues getting in, where would you imagine 36 puts us? I would imagine on the better end of the bubble
