NCAA bracketing affirmative action style -- loosen the rules?

[jtwcornell91]

OK, I'll go back to my corner now and won't bring up L16/L20 anymore because I don't have time to do the math to see who would have benefited or been screwed by such a factor. ;-)

Guess what this lets you add? http://www.slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2006/rankings.diy.shtml

In fact it even lets you add it KRACH weighted.

You can thank JTW later

See also http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?kpairwise

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Trotsky]Snowboarding is a good example, though, since it is only in the Olympics because Americans only watch the Olympics if Americans are winning gold medals, and we suck in all the real sports, so we had to rig the system.  (See also: allowing in the professionals and destroying the entire point of the Olympics).[/Q]Give me a break. Snowboarding is a sport because more young people do that than ski. Sure we are good at it but it's all over the world. If we didn't allow it skiing may have died out as the youngers just left. Now at least we can go to the same slope.

[Q]We now return you to the 18th century, in which I would have been much more happy.[/quote]But maybe dead by now considering the state of medical care then.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jim Hyla]But maybe dead by now considering the state of medical care then.[/quote]
Cheap health insurance, though. ::nut::

[nyc94]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote Trotsky]Snowboarding is a good example, though, since it is only in the Olympics because Americans only watch the Olympics if Americans are winning gold medals, and we suck in all the real sports, so we had to rig the system.  (See also: allowing in the professionals and destroying the entire point of the Olympics).[/Q]Give me a break. Snowboarding is a sport because more young people do that than ski. Sure we are good at it but it's all over the world. If we didn't allow it skiing may have died out as the youngers just left. Now at least we can go to the same slope.

[Q]We now return you to the 18th century, in which I would have been much more happy.[/quote]But maybe dead by now considering the state of medical care then.[/quote]

Whenever I question if the US is "rigging the system" I look at how many medals are awarded in cross country skiing and Nordic combined.

[billhoward]

[quote nyc94][quote Jim Hyla][quote Trotsky]Snowboarding is a good example, though, since it is only in the Olympics because Americans only watch the Olympics if Americans are winning gold medals, and we suck in all the real sports, so we had to rig the system.  (See also: allowing in the professionals and destroying the entire point of the Olympics).[/Q]Give me a break. Snowboarding is a sport because more young people do that than ski. Sure we are good at it but it's all over the world. If we didn't allow it skiing may have died out as the youngers just left. Now at least we can go to the same slope.
[Q]We now return you to the 18th century, in which I would have been much more happy.[/quote]But maybe dead by now considering the state of medical care then.[/quote]
Whenever I question if the US is "rigging the system" I look at how many medals are awarded in cross country skiing and Nordic combined.[/quote]
U.S. hopes in biathlon were dashed with the unavailability of the vice-president.