New System for Selecting

[Zips fan]

I know everyone on this board is very angry at the exclusion from the NIT. The fact that they have idiots for a panel left a very deserving team from enjoying the post season. I feel the NIT needs to change their selection process to allow teams to accurately gage their status for both tournaments. I put together a sloppy attempt to see what another option would look like. This has team in the top 100 for RPI and Sagragin listed. I gave each team a score from 100-1 based on their ranking within each system. Then I included the coaches poll and gave the 40 teams points from 100-60. The teams that did not receive votes could receive a maximium of 50 for this spot. I averaged the RPI and Sagarin together for those not receiving votes.EX: Kentucky RPI 89 points, Sagarin 81 points, no votes in polls 50 points=total/3 73.33 (26th ranked school-deserving of a NCAA at-large bid). RPI Sagarin Coaches Total Rank Tournament How Ohio St. 100 99 100 99.67 1 NCAA Automatic UCLA 99 95 98 97.33 2 NCAA At-Large North Carolina 98 100 93 97.00 3 NCAA Automatic Wisconsin 97 96 97 96.67 4 NCAA At-Large Florida 95 98 95 96.00 5 NCAA Automatic Kansas 90 97 99 95.33 6 NCAA Automatic Memphis 93 94 96 94.33 7 NCAA Automatic Pittsburgh 96 91 90 92.33 8 NCAA At-Large Georgetown 92 93 92 92.33 9 NCAA Automatic Texas A&M 83 92 94 89.67 10 NCAA At-Large Southern Ill. 94 82 88 88.00 11 NCAA At-Large Maryland 84 88 81 84.33 12 NCAA At-Large Duke 85 86 80 83.67 13 NCAA At-Large Oregon 80 84 83 82.33 14 NCAA Automatic Texas 76 83 87 82.00 15 NCAA At-Large Arizona 87 87 70 81.33 16 NCAA At-Large Washington St. 75 76 89 80.00 17 NCAA At-Large Notre Dame 70 85 85 80.00 18 NCAA At-Large Nevada 78 68 91 79.00 19 NCAA At-Large Butler 74 78 84 78.67 20 NCAA At-Large UNLV 91 68 76 78.33 21 NCAA Automatic Tennessee 88 73 71 77.33 22 NCAA At-Large Villanova 86 79 65 76.67 23 NCAA At-Large Creighton 81 69 74 74.67 24 NCAA Automatic Marquette 79 63 82 74.67 25 NCAA At-Large Kentucky 89 81 50 73.33 26 NCAA At-Large Michigan St. 77 77 63 72.33 27 NCAA At-Large Brigham Young 82 55 78 71.67 28 NCAA At-Large Louisville 63 66 86 71.67 29 NCAA At-Large Virginia Tech 67 74 71 70.67 30 NCAA At-Large Indiana 73 71 60 68.00 31 NCAA At-Large Air Force 72 56 72 66.67 32 NCAA At-Large Boston College 68 65 60 64.33 33 NCAA At-Large USC 61 64 67 64.00 34 NCAA At-Large Xavier 69 58 63 63.33 35 NCAA At-Large Missouri State 65 72 50 62.33 36 NCAA At-Large Virginia 46 60 77 61.00 37 NCAA At-Large Georgia Tech 49 80 50 59.67 38 NCAA At-Large Clemson 55 73 50 59.33 39 NCAA At-Large Illinois 71 54 50 58.33 40 NCAA At-Large Arkansas 66 59 50 58.33 41 NCAA At-Large Purdue 57 67 50 58.00 42 NCAA At-Large Vanderbilt 54 45 73 57.33 43 NCAA At-Large Winthrop 31 62 79 57.33 44 NCAA Automatic Florida St. 60 61 50 57.00 45 NIT At-Large Davidson 52 44 75 57.00 46 NCAA Automatic VA Commonwealth 59 41 66 55.33 47 NCAA Automatic Syracuse 51 50 65 55.33 48 NIT At-Large West Virginia 44 52 68 54.67 49 NIT At-Large Bradley 62 47 50 53.00 50 NIT At-Large Alabama 53 48 50 50.33 51 NIT At-Large Kansas St. 45 51 48 48.00 52 NIT At-Large Old Dominion 64 31 47.5 47.50 53 NIT At-Large Gonzaga 41 53 47 47.00 54 NCAA Automatic Mississippi St. 37 57 47 47.00 55 NIT At-Large Massachusetts 39 42 58 46.33 56 NIT At-Large Georgia 43 49 46 46.00 57 NIT At-Large Michigan 47 43 45 45.00 58 NIT At-Large Oklahoma St. 50 38 44 44.00 59 NIT At-Large Drexel 58 25 41.5 41.50 60 NIT At-Large Texas Tech 48 35 41.5 41.50 61 NIT At-Large Stanford 34 46 40 40.00 62 NIT At-Large Mississippi 42 34 38 38.00 63 NIT At-Large Akron 35 40 37.5 37.50 64 NIT At-Large DePaul 33 39 36 36.00 65 NIT At-Large Utah St. 56 15 35.5 35.50 66 NIT At-Large Appalachian St. 38 33 35.5 35.50 67 NIT At-Large San Diego St. 36 22 29 29.00 68 NIT At-Large Geo. Washington 29 28 28.5 28.50 69 NCAA Automatic Vermont 24 0 59 27.67 70 NIT At-Large Washington 17 36 26.5 26.50 71 NIT At-Large Providence 25 26 25.5 25.50 72 New Mexico St. 32 16 24 24.00 73 Holy Cross 40 6 23 23.00 74 LSU 9 37 23 23.00 75 California 23 19 21 21.00 76 Northern Iowa 15 27 21 21.00 77 Wright St. 28 11 19.5 19.50 78 Missouri 7 29 18 18.00 79 N.C. St. 10 24 17 17.00 80 Saint Louis 26 7 16.5 16.50 81 Oklahoma 3 30 16.5 16.50 82 Wichita St. 1 32 16.5 16.50 83 Texas A&M C.C. 19 13 16 16.00 84 Dayton 30 0 15 15.00 85 Long Beach St. 21 8 14.5 14.50 86 Santa Clara 8 21 14.5 14.50 87 Can't St. 14 14 14 14.00 88 Hofstra 27 0 13.5 13.50 89 Fresno St. 13 12 12.5 12.50 90 Iowa 4 20 12 12.00 91 Nebraska 0 19 14.5 11.17 92 Bucknell 22 0 11 11.00 93 Houston 16 5 10.5 10.50 94 Pennsylvania 20 0 10 10.00 95 Albany 18 0 9 9.00 96 Auburn 0 18 9 9.00 97 Oral Roberts 12 3 7.5 7.50 98 Miami (OH) 11 2 6.5 6.50 99 Tex CC 0 13 6.5 6.50 100 Hawaii 2 10 6 6.00 101 Hawaii 0 10 5 5.00 102 Toledo 6 3 4.5 4.50 103 Wake Forest 0 9 4.5 4.50 104 West. Kentucky 5 0 2.5 2.50 105 Loyola-Chicago 0 4 2 2.00 106 Baylor 0 3 1.5 1.50 107 Ill St 0 1 0.5 0.50 108

[Zipgrad1990]

Looks good. Any type of calculation is better than leaving it up to humans. I posted the below on Fox and as a late add to my thread started about using computer selection. I'll add it below since it indirectly relates to this thread:What other ways would improve the selection process?How about this?Get rid of the NIT, add those 32 spots, toss out the play in game so the NCAA tournament is 96 teams. The 32 strongest teams get a bye, first round is 64 teams (as is the second round).Teams must play at least half their games on the road and no team (other than conference tournament winners) can be considered for the tournament without winning at least 65% of their games (sort of how college football teams aren't bowl eligible unless they are .500 or better)The last 2 are to try to force major conferences to play more mid-majors at the mid-major site or at least play them more (since they think they can beat us easily to help with the 65% rule).