(07-15-2017 01:19 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(07-14-2017 10:45 PM)SouthEastAlaska Wrote:  So does this change anything Steve? Is this really going to push more mid-majors into the tournament? Or is this just fluff to make someone feel better about the process?

A step in the right direction, toward "more fair", as in still Power Conference biased, but less egregiously so.

Seems to me the last 3-4 years there's been at least one mid-major egregiously left out. If this gets most of those guys in (and I'm talking on average one a year tops) then it is all of the above. Feel good fluff (in the sense it doesn't upset the $$ Apple Cart) but hopefully correcting the very worst of the oversights.

Thing is that Illinois St like I showed would have gotten dinged pretty good with the new stuff....

tier 1- old 1-2 new 0-3
tier 2- old 1-2 new 1-2- cumulative old- 2-4 new 1-5
tier 3- old 13-1 new 12-1
tier 4- old 11-1 new 13-0

So I don't see how Illinois St would have magically gotten in as a result of this.

Meanwhile- Kansas St- the last team in the tourney
tier 1- old 4-9 new 6-8
tier 2- old 2-2 new 0-4 cumulative old 6-11 new 6-12
tier 3- old 8-2 new 6-1
tier 4- old 6-0 new 8-0

If anything Kansas St is helped by things as they now have 2 more tier 1 wins.