Early on in the season a few of us talking briefly about WAB when I started the "Bracketology" thread. My only mention was "pay attention."
As it ends up it didn't work like I thought it would with Texas. But, that is due to the weak bubble field this season in my latest opinion.
To the topic ...
It all started, Seth Burn says, with his āabsolute hatredā for blind-rĆ©sumĆ© tests.
He used to roll his eyes at his TV screen whenever a college basketball analyst would compare two unnamed NCAA tournament bubble teams using an incomplete, cherry-picked set of data points.
āThere has to be a fairer way of selecting teams than this,ā Burn often thought to himself. So the professional sports gambler from Bronxville, New York, put his background in statistical analysis to use and tried to come up with one.
On Feb. 1, 2015, Burn wrote a blog post introducing a new rĆ©sumĆ©-based metric that he created to help objectively compare the achievements of teams that played vastly different strengths of schedules. Wins Above Bubble measures a teamās total number of victories compared to how many wins the average bubble team would be expected to rack up against the same schedule.
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As it ends up it didn't work like I thought it would with Texas. But, that is due to the weak bubble field this season in my latest opinion.
To the topic ...
It all started, Seth Burn says, with his āabsolute hatredā for blind-rĆ©sumĆ© tests.
He used to roll his eyes at his TV screen whenever a college basketball analyst would compare two unnamed NCAA tournament bubble teams using an incomplete, cherry-picked set of data points.
āThere has to be a fairer way of selecting teams than this,ā Burn often thought to himself. So the professional sports gambler from Bronxville, New York, put his background in statistical analysis to use and tried to come up with one.
On Feb. 1, 2015, Burn wrote a blog post introducing a new rĆ©sumĆ©-based metric that he created to help objectively compare the achievements of teams that played vastly different strengths of schedules. Wins Above Bubble measures a teamās total number of victories compared to how many wins the average bubble team would be expected to rack up against the same schedule.
How a professional gambler's 'hatred' turned into the key data point for evaluating NCAA tournament bubble teams
WAB has rapidly become the key data point used by the NCAA selection committee to determine the final at-large berths, and it's the brainchild of a professional gambler.
