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Message: [QUOTE="Watchdog, post: 3743949, member: 10325"] How dare you denigrate the championships won in the widely overlooked, yet mighty, Yankee Conference. To believe no one would massage the data you have to be certain no one would ever be biased in their choice of criteria and the weighting and assignment of point values for the criteria chosen, nor use a spread sheet, in which they can assign/change point values for the criteria as they see fit, as the means to rank the teams. For one thing why all the points for NBA draft picks, with weighting based on the round in which they're chosen? Great players help teams win in college and this list is supposed to be about college teams. The wins and losses, tournament bids and championships, and all the first ten criteria make sense, but 11, 12 and 13 do not because the player's effect on the college game is accounted for in wins and losses, etc. The other glaring example of what's wrong with the list is how points were assigned for NIT championships. Either the the writer knows nothing about the history of the college game or didn't want to choose a date for when the two tournaments swapped positions of prominence and assign values for those championships based on the eras in which they were won. [B]20 points for all NCAA championships[/B] and [B]3 for all NIT championships[/B] is a disservice to the great NIT winners in the earlier years and way too many points for the NCAA winners in the earlier years. [LIST=1] [*]NCAA Tournament championships (20 points) [*]Final Four appearances without a national title (10 points) [*]Regular-season titles (5 points) [*]Elite Eights without making the Final Four (3 points) [*]NIT titles (3 points) [*]NCAA Tournament bids (2 points) [*]Wins (0.5 points) [*]Losses (-0.5 points) [*]Wins over ranked opponents (0.5 points) [*]Weeks ranked (0.1 point) [*]Top-10 NBA picks (5 points) [*]11-30 NBA picks (3 points) [*]31-60 NBA picks (1 point) [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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