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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5044607, member: 13453"] [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/top-25-womens-basketball-programs-of-all-time.188342/post-5037338']Results[/URL] are based on a methodology suggested in this [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/top-25-womens-basketball-programs-of-all-time.188342/post-4541435']post[/URL], partly from this [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/top-25-womens-basketball-programs-of-all-time.188342/post-4546013']post[/URL] and adding a point for going undefeated. TN barely edges UConn. If the described parameter set (weights by NCAAT Results) is changed to give more weight to F4+ results, UConn comes on top of TN. With your post, you are advocating for fractional weights to earlier NCAATs, based on a value judgment that requires fractional weights (value?) be assigned to earlier (which ones?) NCAAT results. [I]The results here and the underlying methodology are illustrative. There will always be unresolvable beholder problems. [/I] Perhaps the [B]real lament[/B] is that during the relatively short period of the NCAAT, there are not enough long-lived and durable programs to prevent UConn, TN and Stanford to be the clear cut programs above the field. PS1: The results show 32 teams in rank order. You can infer the results of a simply tweaked methodology to filter out some teams. PS2: If you prefer to build another model, a tab (“Result by School and by Year”) on an earlier-posted link ([URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_tournament']NCAA Div I Tournaments[/URL]) shows NCAAT results for all years and in total by school. PS3: Points prior to 1994 per your post [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/top-25-womens-basketball-programs-of-all-time.188342/post-5044512']here[/URL] are handled via the demarcation among the levels of NCAAT results in the data in PS2. For example, the number of NCs is the number of cumulative NC’s minus the number of cumulative undefeated NC’s. The number of F2’s, F4’s, E8’s, etc. are determined recursively and points are awarded to the R64s, R32s, etc. determined thus. [/QUOTE]

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