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Seth’s 2017 Bracket Assist Tool Comment Count

Seth

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This began as a tool I made to fill out my brackets, then a few years ago I shared it and it became a thing. Much of the data are from Kenpom, though this year I also included ThePowerRank.com’s rankings, which Ed determines by expected margin of victory over an average opponent. Both he and Kenpom wound up pretty close, but it’s a bit more data when you’re deciding things like which should-be-a-6-seed do I choose in this 7-10 matchup? Alex Cook will have a thing later today that shows which teams got screwed the most in this year’s rather whacky seeding. Spoiler: Maryland and Minnesota shouldn’t be over the BTT championship participants.

The Tool The Tool The Tool:

To use this you:

  1. Follow this link to make a copy of the spreadsheet.
  2. Select the two teams you want to compare.

The site will be pulled from Team 1, fyi, so if you pull a match that doesn’t exist you’ll still get the distance each team will have to travel to their real site.

Thanks also go to the guy who wrote a google script to pull drive times with a formula.

Comments

redjugador24

March 14th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^

I mean I knew we weren't an up-tempo team, but never realized we were THAT slow. Now I can't stop picturing horrible 3's being hoisted as the shot clock buzzer goes off and it all makes sense. 

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gronostaj

March 14th, 2017 at 2:55 PM ^

Thanks Seth for the Tool. Just did the pairwise comparisons for each matchup and strictly took the results (no interpretation or additional analysis) and have Gonzaga over UNC for the win (3 1-seeds make it - no Kansas). Intriguing.

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Seth

March 14th, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^

When you copy it you will find the raw data sheet. Then go on Kenpom and grab all of the % to wins from all these tourney games except not those playing quasi home games. Match that to the differential in efficiency and then you can work backwards to find approximately Kenpom's win% calculation formula from efficiency differential, which you have already. Share with your friends.

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Goggles Paisano

March 14th, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^

I'm rolling with the Shockers for a 2nd round KO of Kentucky.  Is it just me or does this year seem to be one of toughest brackets to pick?  Seems to be a lot of parity and not any dominant teams that are just head and shoulders better than everyone else.  

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