One of great things about the NCAA tournament is determining the bubble teams and who's in and who's out. Very often this is done with a blind test of Team X vs Team Y. You're given each team's resume but without the team name. So I figured this could be applied to section seeding at the high school level. So here are 2 teams from the same section with the names removed.
Team A
Overall Record: 8-4
The 8 victories are over opponents with a 34.2% winning percentage.
Average margin of victory: 17.6 pts
3 losses are to opponents with a 84.4% winning percentage.
Average margin of defeat: 13.3 pts
Opponents games vs Team A are removed in those percentages.
8 of the 12 games are against opponents who are 1 class below them (5-3)
No games against opponents in a higher class
Team A is 1-1 in section games
Team B
Overall Record: 4-8
3 wins are over opponents with a 55.2% winning percentage.
Average margin of victory: 12.7 pts
The 8 losses are to opponents with a 62.5% winning percentage.
Average margin of defeat 11.9 pts.
Opponents games vs Team B are removed in those percentages.
Team B is 0-3 against opponents from 1 class above. 1-0 against opponents from 1 class below.
Team B is 2-3 in section games
Other facts
Team B defeated Team A by 16 points in the 1 head-head meeting. Team B hosted that game.
They also have played 1 common opponent. Both teams hosted this common opponent who we'll call Team C.
Team A lost to Team C by 29 points
Team B lost to Team C by 6 points in overtime.
Team A has the higher QRF but Team B is very close.
If the seeding meeting was today, who do you give the higher seed?
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