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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5244196, member: 1023"] Now that our season is over, I am going to once more complain about selection of the NCAA teams by a math problem. I think the pairwise is a fine metric and should be a consideration but not the only one for tournament selection. It is just a gussied up transitive property is sports which misses lots of nuances. There are 16 slots. 5 or is it 6 are awarded to league tournament champs. When there were only a few slots it made sense maybe but with 10 it is time to stop pretending that the best teams get there through solving a math problem. The NCAA Frozen Four is a 1,2,3,and4 seed. That suggests that the magic formula did a pretty random job of ranking team. [/QUOTE]