📄 2039 Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket w/ EC Hood: Part 1 Jan 2nd

Dance Partners, Building a Better Bracket. A bracketology presentation by EC Hood

A bracketology presentation by EC Hood

It’s the earliest Bracketology ever, otherwise known as: I Finally Got My Work Done Before the Holidays and Have Some Time to Kill on a Lazy Afternoon. Thus – a team of 68 that makes some – emphasis on the some – sense as we head into conference play. The NET rankings were used but this early in the season they don’t tell you everything. But in some circumstances teams with really high NET rankings were left off or ignored. That doesn’t mean they can’t vastly improve their circumstances during league play! Expect TONS of changes between now and the next update as we separate the men from the boys in during the brutal conference gauntlet.

That said, here’s our first shot as a bracket that’s a reasonable balance between results so far and what could happen if these teams maintain their trajectories. As usual, we try to provide a better bracket than the Draft Day Sports A.I. can provide. But we did take some liberties with the automatic bids. It’s just too early to have a clear favorite in a lot of the conferences.

The Rules:

1. No two teams from the same conference will play each other before the Elite 8 unless impossible to avoid.
2. No at-large teams will be seeded below the 12 line unless impossible to avoid. The play-in at-large teams will always be the last four at-large teams that made it.
3. Note: Conference champion bid predictions are determined by the team with the best in-conference record, and higher NET ranking if tied, at the time of the update if the league title game hasn’t been played yet.
4. This is not a prediction of what the actual bracket will end up being in the game. It is a prediction of what the bracket would be if this season occurred in real life right now and was picked by the NCAA committee.
5. I’m not quite the NCAA committee – I’m not going to examine every injury to determine if a result was legit or not and I probably won’t have time to drill down into every team sheet. In the end, this is just for fun.

IN GAME DATE: Jan 2nd