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.