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Originally Posted by SupDock
I interpret this data to mean it is a crap shoot. Well, not a crapshoot but a lot of randomness and "madness" involved. Not saying that's a bad thing though
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Good or bad, it's just the nature of a 68 team single elimination tournament. You're going to get some very random outcomes sometimes and even the very best teams are exposed in such a format.
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If it was a best of 3 series starting in the elite 8, how many of these do you think would be different, and better reflect which teams were ranked highest in the pretournament rankings?
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Best teams would win a bit more often. Quite often even the best teams have one bad game over the course of six games (think KU/UNI 2010 when 2010 KU was one of the best teams we've seen over the past decade or so). If you could have that bad game in a Bo3 series instead, it would help.