Seth's Bracket Tool

Submitted by Boner Stabone on March 15th, 2021 at 10:10 AM

Not sure if it was mentioned or not, but will Seth be providing his annual bracket tool again this year?  I have found it useful in the past in helping fill out my brackets. I hope he will be providing it again this year.    

LickReach

March 15th, 2021 at 12:01 PM ^

My upset pick if OSU losing first round, getting banned from entering Indianapolis and then somehow causing their school to lose all accreditation. 

what are we talking about again?

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B-Nut-GoBlue

March 15th, 2021 at 2:05 PM ^

If anyone is fiending and needs matchup info now, I found this method earlier this year for getting point scores/point predictions and can be done by one's self with an excel sheet if you don't have a Kenpom subscription.  There are other methods and calculations but this seemed fairly accurate this year, at least regarding point spreads, especially.

'Download'/copy the Kenpom front page into a spread sheet.  Figure out the national Tempo Average and national ppp average (Average Efficiency)

1) Add Team A's offensive ppp + Team B's defensive ppp and subtract the national average efficiency.

2) Take both teams tempos, add them, then subtract the national average tempo.  This will be the game tempo/pace.

3) Team A's predictive offensive output will be the the number from step 1 multiplied by number from step 2, divided by 100.  Do the 'same' for Team B.

Normally you would add 1.6 for a home team and subtract 1.6 for the away team but neutral courts negate this.

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