(04-08-2021 11:02 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-08-2021 10:52 AM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(04-08-2021 10:23 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-07-2021 09:28 PM)jhasting Wrote:  Ex.) if only wins counted in 2021 then over half of conferences participating would receive no shares ....

Aha, getting no money at all is a problem. So give each conference one unit for its automatic bid. Then all other units only for wins. That way the little guys always get something.

Winning games should have a lot more value than mere participation. For that matter, IMO participation via automatic qualifier should have less value than selection via an agreed merit-based criteria. It doesn’t take much effort to form a conference and schedule games...winning games is more challenging (either in the regular season or during the tournament). Money should not be disbursed as a participation reward.

I agree in principle, but the conferences run this thing via the NCAA, and no conference wants a purely "commission based" system, because nobody wants to be left totally out of the money.

So .... everyone gets a "base" of one unit, call it a base salary for participation if you like, then the rest based on merit. That's IMO a big improvement over now, where you can collect seven units like the ACC just did merely for participation.

This year was the first time in over 40 years that the ACC will get paid more for tournament participation than achievement. Specifically, the 4-7 ACC record resulted in the worst winning percentage since 1979...yet Florida State and Syracuse still made the Sweet 16 and ensured that the ACC was not a free rider.

Even with this year’s historically bad performance, the ACC won 6% (4 / 67) of games while receiving 8% (11 / 132) of units. The financial-to-performance mismatch isn’t resulting from the ACC’s once-in-40+-years performance aberration. IMO, the current NCAA revenue distribution format over-values participation versus performance. A better model is the European Champions League format where more than 40 associations (conferences) join to create a compelling entertainment event. Upsets can still happen in the early rounds and winning has a greater impact on financial distribution.