Recent content by BryceC

For sure it should. I just think I’d like to see the weighting moved much more heavily to reward playing good teams. Right now it’s better to play the worst team in the country and beat them by 50 rather than play top 100 teams and lose or play them close. Makes it really hard for good mid...

Here’s the problem - margin of victory is capped at 20 points. The efficiency part is not capped. If you’re scoring 1.3 PPP and holding your opponent to .7 PPP over a large # of possessions it makes your overall rating just get jacked up

Correct. Part of the formula needs fixed around this but until they do piss pounding these 300+ teams is very helpful. Don’t look not but we are 1/3 through the season. Iowa would have to absolutely tank to even get down to around 50 right now.

Agreed. But Iowa has given themselves room to lose a game or two in conference play they shouldn’t. Depending on which games Iowa could go 9-11 in conference play and be in pretty easily IMO.

Iowa’s NET ranking is 13th. KenPom 19th. Torvik 18th and projecting Iowa for a 6 seed in the tourney. The metrics love Iowa. Honestly barring a meltdown Iowa is easily in the tourney. Your seed will be impacted by the lack of Q1 and Q2 wins but plenty of opportunity for that in conference...

Basically every game last year was a bad game/matchup in the first round.

Probably so. But would those two games draw more ratings than 16 games? Of course not.

I’d Like I said you could go 24 teams and have the top 8 get byes if you’re really worried about bad matchups. I care more about basketball than anything so I’m used to bad matchups and first round blowouts. I’m kind of fine with it. Frankly yes, I’d like to see the bad matchups in a...

This is patently false. With two ACC teams in you absolutely would not see the best teams in there.

The playoffs are worth way more than 1 game especially if they are expanded

At 32 I don’t really care the criteria. You could even give the top 8 a bye and just go 24 for all I care. if you aren’t in the top 24 or 32 you simply probably aren’t a good team. I want non cons to drop. Most of the games kind of suck, I’d rather them play meaningful games. I dont want CCG’s...

32 teams. Drop one noncon, no more conference title games. Start week zero, this year would be 8/23. 11 games with a bye. Playoffs start November 22nd, end December 20th. You avoid NFL playoffs and conference basketball season for the most part. Portal opens 12/22. Tell me who complains.

My kid is sick so I was rewatching some of the game in the middle of the night. Honestly I’m not seeing it.

Iowa was plenty physical. Refs were allowing a lot of contact. Not sure anybody was terribly happy with them.

McCollum knows ball. Super impressed by Iowa. So many times in the first half Iowa was able to scheme experienced players into traps. Got Iowa State playing the Hawkeyes game. A lot to look forward to with this group and this staff.