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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 2606352, member: 1673"] I did not know that "select the 32 best (remaining) teams to fill the bracket" was a stated goal. That settles the discussion and your knowledge base is why I appreciate your postings. I would just point out that if "select the 32 best teams to fill the bracket" is a stated goal, then satisfying that by requiring teams "to be among the top 32 non-AQ teams" is a tautology. It's not a matter of fairness, it's the goal. You could also consider it fair to insist teams succeed in their conference by the absolute minimum of standards, if doing so does not weed out what could have been the champion and "select the 32 best teams to fill the bracket" was not a stated goal. [/QUOTE]