I'm not sure I completely understand the problem. Are you saying that a team with a worse record than the other teams in a competition that happens to win out in the playoff rounds doesn't deserve to win? CBI uses the following for tiebreakers when it comes to rankings: 1. head-to-head, 2. Total Points, 3. PPG Avg. (third because a team might have had a blowout game against a much less talented program). Although I disagree with the Region 9 fix (I don't think a team should get 10 points just because they weren't prompted -- it does assume they'd know the answer, which doesn't always happen), I don't see the problem with playoffs as described in Matt's previous post. OU went undefeated in the round robin in Region 11 about six years ago, but lost two in the playoffs and was eliminated. If we had really been as good as our record seemed to indicate, we should have won out in the playoffs, too. It seems like you'd punish teams in March Madness for upsetting higher ranked teams. But I'm sure I'm misunderstanding your point. As for CBI's "television" format, you either like it, or you don't. If you don't, then don't play, or at least acknowledge that if you are playing, that you're doing so under duress. Or for the free food and stuff. David Murphy, Univ. of Oklahoma PS: Congrats to Oklahoma Baptist for the best match of the tournament, and it wasn't against us... And Sean from WUSTL for the best slow burn stare I've seen outside of a Howard Hawks film.
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