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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4255644, member: 1023"] LOL. And the Super Bowl isn’t the best way of determining the Champion, either. AFC is much tougher so the winner is more worn down. And the US Open isn’t the best way to determine the Champion either. Andy North can get hot while a great player hits it into the toolie boonies. We should do it by computer. I can just see the ratings now. Millions of viewers watching some guy punch in SOS data, and then two statistics PhDs arguing about components of the Golden Mean calculation and whether Recent results should be weighed more than overall. Actually it kinda does identify the best team. Since 2000, only 6 champs have not been a 1 seed. And if we posit that seeding is generally correct and 1 seeds are more or less the best teams in their years, that is pretty much what would be expected. There have also been 2 2-seeds, 3 3-seeds and a 7-seed. UConn in 2014 being the biggest Outlier. But it is the only one over a 3 seed to win a title since Villanova in 1985. And I would argue that that team was under seeded because nobody really had a handle on how good or bad the AAC was. [/QUOTE]