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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
I tell you one thing; I would hate to be in charge of picking, say, the final 28 teams for this type of thing. It's a no-win situation.
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There will always be people & teams who will claim they got snubbed out of their "rightful" spot. The reality is the 1st 60-64 participants are easy. It is the last 5 or 6 that you could do eeny-meeny-miney-mo on and get a bunch of arguments & debate. I actually used to do bracket predictions myself for fun, 30+ years ago, before Lunardi ever became a household name in college basketball (wish I'd known then there was a career in it). But the last picks & seeding is where the "expertise" comes in.
The flaw is everyone wants a concrete qualification process & it just will never happen as long as you have at large teams. 2025 is not like 2024. Is not like a decade ago. Or 25 years ago. The selection committee rotates so you are going to have differing opinions, biases, preferences etc that will influence the choices from season to season. Maybe this year the "tiebreaker" was OOC schedule, next season tougher conference, last year computer metrics. Who's hot? Who's popular (no matter how much they deny it)? There is no one true data point that is going to win out each time. Every criteria is at play & rightfully so.
It is still an opinion based process and @ no time will people have the same opinion or be stagnant in that opinion.