I try this again, could I get an explanation as to why Princeton B was ranked ahead of University of Maryland? This the biggest problem I had with the rankings. Was it all because they scored an "incredible" 395 more points in 12 TUs than us? Or maybe because we got a "lucky" break and only won our game against them by 125 points, which is of course a "small margin" that can be made up by 3 TUs (with one power) and 30 all three bonuses, of course a victory like that is essentially meaningless. Finally, we only had a "narrow" three game lead over Princeton B. I can understand with all those minor factors accounted for, Princetion B is definitely more "statistically dominant". Thank you NAQT, for showing that winning close games doesn't mean anything. Also for showing that winning against quality teams doesn't mean anything either, because it could be any factor other than the fact that the winning team is better. It's all about how a team running up the score on a weaker team that counts. This system doesn't even take into account if a team plays a weaker team in a slow room, they are disadvantaged because they are more likely to score higher against weaker teams than against stronger teams. I don't mind getting screwed over some "magical" numerical formula, but please don't justify it with stuff like "win-loss" records can't be compared across regions. I definitely think it can, just weigh the good wins against the bad wins maybe even the good losses against the bad losses. Game by game results is in the stat program and can be had, at least in the program we use. I definitely think it's a better way, because beating Michigan B by 20 points is vastly different than beating a team by 400 points that had below 5 Points Per Tossup (PPT). Just like losing by 20 to the same below 5 PPT is different than getting smashed by Michigan B 400 points. Good luck to all qualifiers, and congrats to them for playing in a tournament where winning matters. Andy University of Maryland
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