MakeMullinsGreatAgain wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:05 am
eldonabe wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:45 am
That is the kind of shit that one-bid leagues constantly suffer from unfortunately.
The thing I don't understand is P6 conferences always talk about how everyone beats up on each other and thats why there records aren't great at the end of the year - yet they get 5/6 or more teams in each year - but A-10 is arguably the 7th best conference - so why do our teams get hurt so much by beating up on one another and end up as a 1 bid league unless there is an upset? you'd think being 1 notch below a Power 6 conference would warrant a little respect from the committee - and maybe it will this year but just based on the first week or so of conference play - we will once again beat up on each other and it will ultimately hurt our chances of getting multiple bids. I get they go by NET and other computer formulas so I get how the teams are picked - it just sucks
You make a good observation. The A-10 is ranked higher this year than the last couple. I don't have time to go back, but I think they were like 11th or 12th last year and not much better than 10th for a couple in a row.
Football is P4/P5 and everybody else. Hoops has a little more room with those 4 or 5 conferences, the Big East, plus 2 others. West Coast Conference has been one of those "other two" for years because of Gonzaga & St Mary's, and the A-10 was other one for a long time.
It is really hard to get more than 2 bids outside of those top 7/8 conferences . 68 teams seems like a lot, but when almost half are auto bids (33), the at-large bids get sucked up pretty quickly by the next best teams. Of 33 conferences, only about 12 or 13 have teams ranked in the top 68 to begin with then you get SEC/B1G/ACC hogging 6-8 teams each - 2 bid opportunities reduce really fast.
