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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3286524, member: 7492"] I did an update on the stats for Top2% as I realized I doubled the opportunities for 1st and 2nd when it was just one or the other. As a result, Tennessee is far more dominant than I initially posted at 67%-My ERROR! They finished 1st or 2nd 51 times (35 1st, 16 2nd) in 76 opportunities (40 tournaments/36 Season standings). As I did the update for statistical history of NCAA Tournament Final Four history from 1982 season to present day in September. That led to dialogue of fans comments on this forum about their team having a “good WCBB history”. What though, defines a “good basketball history”? I decided that success in their league was pre-eminent so I decided to look at 5 variables: [LIST] [*]How many Conference Tournament Finals did a team make (win or runner up)? [*]How many Regular season titles did they win or come in 2nd? [*]What is the Conf. Tourn winning percentage? [*]What is the Conf. Regular season winning percentage? [*]What is the combined Tournament and Regular season winning percentage? [/LIST] These 5 variables are a good tool to assess relative strength to your direct peers, which leads to your satisfaction as a fan and a feeling your team has a good WCBB History. It seems only fitting I start with the SEC given their illustrious history. The SEC has 40 years exactly of SEC Tournament Play and 37 years of listed Conference play. The dominant team is Tennessee who garnered 31.5% (51 total times) of all 162 Top 2 spots of Tournament and Regular Season standings. 18 Season Titles and 17 Tournament titles are unbelievable. They also have an 83% Reg season and 77% Tournament winning percentage. Dominant, unbelievably dominant. Kudos to UT :) , (see, I can be nice to LV fans!). We already knew all this but who was second? Technically, there’s a tie! With winning % as a tie breaker it’s Texas A&M and their brief history of 7 years in the league. They have 1 Tourn title nd 2 Regular season runner ups. That’s 3 for 14 or 21.4% and they have the second-best winning percentage of 68% (69% Reg/63% Tourn). Tied with them is South Carolina- Go Gamecocks! They too have 21.4% with 12 Top 2 places in 56 spots of 28 years of SEC play. They still have a sub .500 record however-some of those pre-Dawn teams must have been terrible. 4rd was Georgia then 5th LSU. Of truly abysmal performance by programs are, to no one’s surprise Florida, Alabama and Arkansas. Bama is dead last in Conference win percentage at 35.5% (34.7/41.2). Arkansas is a close 2nd at 35.7% (35.7/35.7). Arkansas has never finished 1st or 2nd in either in 28 years in the SEC and Florida has 3 second place finishes in 40 years for pathetic 1.9% in Top2 finishes. At least Bama has 6 Top 2 finishes (2 Season and 4 T runner-up) in 87 years of combined play for a still paltry 3.7%. The hope for Arkansas is a near term positive outlook, ‘Bama and Florida, not so much. :confused: Here’s the data, sorted by Overall Win%. Have at it and let me know your thoughts. [ATTACH type="full"]47188[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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