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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3823947, member: 730"] If you want to evaluate one game then eyeballing is better than analytics, but if you are evaluating a season then I'll take analytics. Eyeballs often see what they expect to see rather than what is in front of them. If you think that S Car is the best team then you look for confirmation of that and if you think they aren't then you look for things to support that POV. Creme is a prime example. In his last Bracket update he said that S Car was the top seed and he "had the proof" of why SC was the No 1 seed. He had no proof, he had some evidence but in his own mind evidence supporting his POV going in was "proof". Actually I liked Creme's picks better when he did his own work. The last few years he has met with committee months before the tournament and a few times after that. And his bracket was virtually identical to the committee's, giving both a measure of legitimacy (if you think they arrived at their conclusions independently). But they were never independent. At least not in recent years. [/QUOTE]