As Selection Sunday approaches, amateur and “professional” bracketologists alike can’t stop talking about resumes. Which teams are “in” and which teams are “out” of the NCAA Tournament? How can we tell? How do we fairly compare a team from the Big Ten with a team from the Atlantic 10? Bracketologists discuss records, quality wins, and bad losses. But recently, the use of various metrics has been used to judge whether a team does or does not deserve a ticket to the Big Dance.
When it comes to college basketball metrics, there are a lot to choose from, and from a team point of view there are generally two types: prediction-based and results-based.