Can someone explain the playoffs for me?

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K-Mack

Quote from: ExTartanPlayer on September 19, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
I'm not comfortable with leaving undefeated teams out of the field because we've arbitrarily decided that going undefeated against their schedule didn't merit a playoff bid.  How do we know they aren't better than we think?  You never know when we'll leave out an undefeated "weak sister" that actually COULD have won a playoff game.

This is fairly well accepted across the board, and in this system, I don't think we'd ever see a 10-0 team get left out, no matter the quality of its schedule.
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Quote from: K-Mack on October 23, 2012, 02:47:16 AM
Quote from: ExTartanPlayer on September 19, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
I'm not comfortable with leaving undefeated teams out of the field because we've arbitrarily decided that going undefeated against their schedule didn't merit a playoff bid.  How do we know they aren't better than we think?  You never know when we'll leave out an undefeated "weak sister" that actually COULD have won a playoff game.

This is fairly well accepted across the board, and in this system, I don't think we'd ever see a 10-0 team get left out, no matter the quality of its schedule.
I agree with the Guru's statement. We have read of too many interviews with Committee chairs (the people who were actually on the conference calls and in the "smoke-filled" rooms), and the impression that has been conveyed in those newsstories is that "undefeated is undefeated".

Were a Macalester to run the table 10-0, they would be the talk of the Monday morning podcasts during the last 3-4 weeks on the season.