By now, you have probably seen countless bracketologists put forth their projections. Many of them create a full bracket with seeding, game locations, and every other detail supposedly "well thought out". If you pay much attention, you have probably also noticed that these projections are routinely filled with errors. I'm not talking about judgement errors. (although you will find plenty of those too) I'm talking about actual errors, such as setting conference foes on a path to meeting in the round of 32, or the dreaded mistake of sending BYU to a Friday/Sunday regional. (BYU doesn't play games on Sundays) It takes the committee several days locked up in a hotel to create the real thing, and I have come to the conclusion that hardly anyone has the time to put together a working bracket on a regular basis.
Besides being difficult to create, I have come to another, more important conclusion. Simply put, most of us don't really care to see a full bracket in January or February. Most of us simply want a rough idea of where our team stands, that's all. Is there really any advantage to seeing our team placed as the #6 seed out West on Monday, the #7 seed back East on Thursday, and then the #5 seed in the Mid-West on the following Monday? We know that things change after each and every game. A bracketologist's work is never stagnant. With games being played almost every day of the week, it can be hard to keep up. Personally, I believe time spent trying to figure out how to best keep from sending Duke to the west regional can be better spent giving bubble teams a more in depth look and trying to make my field of 68 as thoughtful as possible.
I hope you will find my system to not only be unique, but actually better than what you find elsewhere. My goal is to leave you with better information than just what seed I think your team will be, yet to present it in a concise and easy to read format. In fact, I think you will find my format fairly self-explanatory. If you don't, please read on and I'll try to explain myself.
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