Tag: Big XII
How Long Is The Road to the Final Four For All 68 Teams?
We’ve heard it before: The Road to the Final Four is long and painful. But exactly how long is it? For some of the teams, it seems like they always get opening round games right down the road. For the rest of us, it seems like our team has to cross nine time zones to…
Point Distribution by Conference in NCAA Basketball, or “How Terrible the SWAC is in One Graph”
With the new shot clock rules in the NCAA this season, as expected, scoring has increased dramatically. Everyone knows that. Here are the charts that show it: Similar in distribution, but with a shift of about 10-12%. Given that the shot clock was reduced by 14%, this is what we’d expect. There’s no…
Wednesday Web Roundup for February 9, 2016
Another week, another Wednesday Web Roundup. We hope you’ve recovered from your Super Bowl hangovers. First this week, some light reading on everybody’s favorite discussion: College conference realignment. Apparently, the Big XII is thinking about, well, becoming XII again, up from their current X. Rumor has it that BYU, Cincinnati, UConn, or the directional…
What is Home Court Advantage Worth in College Basketball?
As the 2015-16 College Basketball season passes its halfway point, it’s worth taking a look at the value of a home game. Various people have done it in the past, but none of it has been updated for 2015-16, and we’ll look at how best to do it. First off, we’ll take every game played…
The Case for Ohio State to make the CFB Playoff
Let me begin by pointing out that I hate Ohio State with every fiber of my being. I grew up a Michigan fan, I attended Purdue, there was no space for appreciation of the Buckeyes in my mind. But even while blinded by hatred, I can tell you one simple thing: Ohio State is…
Could relegation/promotion work in NCAA Football?
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Probably one of the most “American fan-friendly” idea that can be imported from leagues overseas is the idea of relegation and promotion. In this setup, the bottom number of teams get demoted at the end of the year to a lower level league, and the top number of teams from the lower league are promoted…