I first wrote about the Dance Card during the last year of the Herbble. As most people know, The Dance Card is the work of two college professors and self-proclaimed basketball junkies. They have attempted to reduce the Selection Committee process for awarding at-large bids to a mathematical formula (trying to hit the sweet point between simplicity and accuracy). Basically they use statistical analysis software (SAS) to determine which of many parameters correlate with the Selection Committee’s decisions.
At the time of my first entry on the Dance Card, the professors listed six factors that their formula was based on.