(sigh)
It is one thing to simply make the joke, but the word seems to be here to stay: Bracketology:
You’d think re-seeding the field every few days wouldn’t be that challenging, right?
Anything but. With all the games that happen each passing day, they represent an impossible-to-predict, snaking-in-every-direction pattern that in many ways is contradictory. From the 68 teams below, about 80 percent of them have lost at least two of their past five games. But it’s where those losses have come and to whom. Some losses are much more damaging. The seeding this season gets tricky around the 4 line and again in the 10 and 11 area.
In my opinion, it’s much tougher to decipher there than at the cut line.
Yeah. Bracketology. I can only imagine the requisite interdisciplinary lectures on the feng shui of kegs and couches.
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Norlander, Matt. “The Science of Bracketology”. Sports on Earth. March 10, 2014.
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