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NCAA Volleyball bracket disparity

This isn’t Nebraska specific, so I apologize, but I think it’s relevant to our recent exit from the tournament. My folks and I were looking at the bracket after our loss to Texas (fuck Texas), and thought our side of the bracket was far and away more difficult than the right side. So I tried to find a way to conceptualize the disparity in the historic success of each half of the bracket. Without going into any analytics, I wanted a quick way to determine if our initial thoughts were justified. I definitely understand that every season is it’s own thing, but there are only 10 different teams to win a championship in the 39 years of the tournament, so historic success is a good indicator of what teams are likely to be successful. I created an arbitrary scale where each team that has made the final 4 (as of last year) would get 1 point, 2 points for a runner up, and 4 points for a championship.

The left side of the bracket has 8 teams that have made a Final 4. The right side has 3. Based on the aforementioned scale, the left side has 181 points. The right side has 19.

What are your thoughts? Why was the bracket so favorable to the right side of the bracket? It really looks like any number of teams from the left side could still be alive in the opposite side of the bracket. Why do you think we see this incredible imbalance?



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