The original rankings were done when I said, confirmed by ESPN. The list was updated after DeShields transferred.
As for your "ignoring" the other teams, Creme had Dayton at 19. You do not think 11 out of 16 is impressive, but considering he had Dayton at #19 clearly shows that the Flyers were a candidate to make the Sweet 16.
You are also holding Creme to a tournament standard based on preseason rankings. The rankings cannot factor in home court, injuries, etc. that go on throughout the season.
For those who criticize the preseason rankings one year later and engage in Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking, I ask where your preseason lists are or present an analyst who did significantly better.
Nope, your link went to a preview for July 29, 2014. As said, up in the Northeast that actually does mean July not April. Lists that get updated to information in July are therefore considered to be published in July in the media world, not the April date you wish to push. As one who has worked for many decades in the publishing world I'll be happy to explain it to you. The original date that an article is published is called the "Original Pub Date." The date that an article got updated with an author's revisions, corrections, or new alterations now that he has learned that someone named DeShields had transferred is called the "Article Updated" date is considered the new publication date of an article. I stated back in my first post that the date of publication was July 29, 2014, which was correct. If you wish to try to explain away all changes done to a revised article as meaningless, that is your option, but in the real world of media you are in the dark.
Again, in the world of women's basketball where everything goes fairly close to the mark, 11 of 16 or a 68% accuracy mark doesn't seem to me to make the grade for being an expert pundit. Is a 68 at Duke a passing grade? I hope not, though maybe at UNC it is. Charlie got 100% for the brackets and I gave him big kudos for a tremendous prediction job there when general feeling was that he was brainless, partly for not giving Princeton the seed that many fans thought the Tigers deserved, even though Charlie knew that the seed he gave Princeton was probably going to be better than the 8th seed that the committee decided to go with.
Can anyone do as well as Creme? Here's suggestion. Just trot out the same 16 teams listed in the final post season poll of the USA Today list. You would have got 11 of the S16 teams in 2014 from the final 2013 poll and 10 of the S16 teams in 2015 from the 2014 poll. Okay, that's only an average of 10.5 of 16, which I guess Charlie did manage to beat by a smidge. Really impressed.
As said, we all have our standards, and if a 68 is a wowser in these days of grade inflation, you definitely win, Cam.
