Ranking the Big 3 Bracketologists

[EnkAMania]

There were a total of 211 brackets in the Bracket Matrix. Here's how the big network guys faired.

Decourcy (FOX) - 9th place
Lunardi (ESPN) - tied for 150th place
Palm (CBS) - tied for 193rd place

 

[Shawker]

There were a total of 211 brackets in the Bracket Matrix. Here's how the big network guys faired.

Decourcy (FOX) - 9th place
Lunardi (ESPN) - tied for 150th place
Palm (CBS) - tied for 193rd place

Lunardi's was bad as expected. I swear Palm was drunk though. There seemed to be no logic with a lot of his picks.

 

[trevn]

Lunardi got the field mostly correct but was way off on the seeding. Pretty much what everyone has been saying about him for a long time.

 

[dahliaclone]

Palm and Lunardi have been living high on the hog for years on this stuff without much in terms of competition. But now with hundreds of others jumping in the bracketology pool they have to feel a LITTLE bit of heat from their networks when they aren't even in the top half of the predictors. That's something if I were their superior would be like 'you bring us a lot of clicks and eyeballs but you need to figure out why you're failing miserably in terms of seeds....work on it and stop embarrassing us or we'll hire one of these young experts.'

 

[CoKane]

Projection Sunday >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All the other ones

@cyclones500 and @Cy$ agree

 

[madguy30]

I want Lunardi's job like I want Mel Kiper's.

 

[jdoggivjc]

I want Lunardi's job like I want Mel Kiper's.

To throw **** on the wall and get paid well for it? I'd love that as well.

 

[madguy30]

To throw **** on the wall and get paid well for it? I'd love that as well.

Yep.

Study up and totally whif any time and have people take your word for it every year.

 

[enisthemenace]

So… @mjhavlo76 did manage to get a bracket or two submitted AND accredited enough to be included within Bracket Matrix

 

[NorthCyd]

Palm and Lunardi have been living high on the hog for years on this stuff without much in terms of competition. But now with hundreds of others jumping in the bracketology pool they have to feel a LITTLE bit of heat from their networks when they aren't even in the top half of the predictors. That's something if I were their superior would be like 'you bring us a lot of clicks and eyeballs but you need to figure out why you're failing miserably in terms of seeds....work on it and stop embarrassing us or we'll hire one of these young experts.'

I get what you're saying, but it's not like this is new. It's been known he's bad for years and still most people talk about Lunardi like it's gospel. Most people just don't pay that much attention to this stuff.

 

[ISUTex]

There were a total of 211 brackets in the Bracket Matrix. Here's how the big network guys faired.

Decourcy (FOX) - 9th place
Lunardi (ESPN) - tied for 150th place
Palm (CBS) - tied for 193rd place

Does the FOX guy figure in CBS and $$$$$? Maybe that's why he placed so high?

 

[cycloneworld]

I’ll never forget Palm’s bowl projections from several years ago that had K-State in the Alamo Bowl as the #1 selection from the Big 12. And they ended up in the Liberty Bowl. Lol.

His projections, both football and basketball, are the worst I’ve seen from a national “expert”. This seems to confirm that.

 

[nfrine]

To throw **** on the wall and get paid well for it? I'd love that as well.

There are a lot of CFer's that would excel at this... Not me, of course.

 

[ClonesFTW]

I stopped looking at individual brackets after I learned about BracketMatrix; their consensus beats 97% of the submissions.

 

[Marcelason78]

So was the biggest seeding miss by the Committee according the Matrix-- Iowa State?

 

[qwerty]

So was the biggest seeding miss by the Committee according the Matrix-- Iowa State?

Yes, at a difference of 1.48 seed line variance (9.52 to 11 seed). Boise State was second at 1.06 (6.94 to 8 seed). ISU probably should have stayed on the 10 line and just swap places with Miami, FL.

 

[Didley]

I was thinking the same thing, but if it was close between us and Miami, they did us both a favor moving them to SCarolina and us to Milwaukee. My guess is that’s what happened

 

[trevn]

Buzz Williams certainly wasn't a fan of the committee.

After NIT win, Buzz Williams blasts NCAA selection committee for Texas A&M's Big Dance snub

At the end of Williams’ news conference Tuesday night, he distributed to reporters nine pages of his own research on why Texas A&M deserved a bid.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[GMackey32]

Lunardi and Palm are really bad at their jobs

 

[cyclones500]

I was thinking the same thing, but if it was close between us and Miami, they did us both a favor moving them to SCarolina and us to Milwaukee. My guess is that’s what happened

I agree, I think it was swapped to make each closer geographically (better attendance potential). Perhaps not common but I'm sure it has happened previously (but only if teams are close to the seed line).

Expanding on the concept -- It would seem to give the 11 and 10 advantage over the 6/7 for "crowd support," but the 2/3 seed teams then might get a slightly weaker opponent (seed-wise) in round 2. ... Not sure if I explained it clearly.