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Bracketology - January 26, 2015

Joe Lunardi: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

Seed - Team
2 - Villanova
5 - Georgetown
5 - Butler
6 - Providence
10 - Seton Hall
11 - Xavier

Jerry Palm: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/bracketology

Seed - Team
2 - Villanova
5 - Georgetown
5 - Butler
7 - Providence
9 - St. John's
9 - Seton Hall
11 - Xavier (play-in game vs. Michigan State at UD Arena)

Lunardi and Palm's latest bracket plus Lunardi's full "Bracket Math":

Big East Bracketology Update 1/26/15

Note: I'll be posting these to my site at least every Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

St. John's in as 9 in one and not listed in the other.

The Bracket Matrix is up and running. It gives you the consensus of .... every bracket out there. You'll also see that Lunardi and Palm are in the bottom half in accuracy. Lunardi is 44th and Palm 52nd out of the 76 brackets captured.

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

HoosierPal wrote:The Bracket Matrix is up and running. It gives you the consensus of .... every bracket out there. You'll also see that Lunardi and Palm are in the bottom half in accuracy. Lunardi is 44th and Palm 52nd out of the 76 brackets captured.

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

Except that Lunardi especially has gotten MUCH more accurate as we've gone along...

last year he was tied for 31st.... Palm was tied for 87th.

You'll see as the brackets as a whole have gone along it's gotten MUCH more accurate...
2006- 284.4
2007- 285.9
2008- 309.1
2009- 303.6
2010- 303.5
2011- 311.4
2012- 327.2
2013- 323.5
2014- 330.3

In bubble team news, Washington has dismissed Robert Upshaw. Leads the country in Blocked shots.

stever20 wrote:

HoosierPal wrote:The Bracket Matrix is up and running. It gives you the consensus of .... every bracket out there. You'll also see that Lunardi and Palm are in the bottom half in accuracy. Lunardi is 44th and Palm 52nd out of the 76 brackets captured.

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

Except that Lunardi especially has gotten MUCH more accurate as we've gone along...

last year he was tied for 31st.... Palm was tied for 87th.

You'll see as the brackets as a whole have gone along it's gotten MUCH more accurate...
2006- 284.4
2007- 285.9
2008- 309.1
2009- 303.6
2010- 303.5
2011- 311.4
2012- 327.2
2013- 323.5
2014- 330.3

Maybe better, but still not the guy I take to Vegas. I'm not sure, but I think Palm may draw names out of a hat.

micgoG'town wrote:In bubble team news, Washington has dismissed Robert Upshaw. Leads the country in Blocked shots.

Drugs....I'm sure Iowa State has already contacted him...

Dance Card for what it's worth. I don't understand their claim to being so accurate.
If it relates to picking about 5 minutes before Selection Sunday program, well most everybody is down to the last 2 teams on the bubble by that point.
Whatever, they've currently got 7 teams north of the bubble.

http://www.unf.edu/~jcoleman/dance.htm

paulxu wrote:Dance Card for what it's worth. I don't understand their claim to being so accurate.
If it relates to picking about 5 minutes before Selection Sunday program, well most everybody is down to the last 2 teams on the bubble by that point.
Whatever, they've currently got 7 teams north of the bubble.

http://www.unf.edu/~jcoleman/dance.htm

I think one big thing is just didn't realize how much of a difference the old/new RPI made for St John's....
in the old RPI- St John's right now is 34. In the new RPI, they're 51. That's a HUGE difference... It's all those home losses killing them..

The only other team that is impacted by more than 2 spots is Xavier- but in reverse. Old RPI 38 new 34.