Analyzing the NCAA Selection Committee’s Top 16 Reveal

On Sunday, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee revealed their Top 16 seeds (as of now) for the NCAA Tournament. This was in part a practice exercise for the Committee to go through the motions of selecting, ordering, and bracketing a group of teams. Additionally, it gave the bracketology community at large some insight into how the Committee views the changes to team sheets and new results-based and predictive metrics. Here is the initial seed list produced by the Committee.

New Metrics Matter

Last week, I discussed how the Committee had added five computer-generated ranking metrics to the Team Sheets in addition to the RPI. Three of the metrics are purely “results-based.” The traditional…