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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Saturday, December 18, 2010 :::
CNNSI has a feature inviting you to "create your own college football playoff", though it seems to be rather rigid. "Your" college football playoff has to have 16 teams in a single-elimination format where the winner of one match is always predetermined to play the winner of another given match (unlike, for example, the NFL playoffs). Further, contrary to what I had imagined — I imagined this in particular due to another feature on their site, where they seeded a sixteen-team playoff of this nature and had people vote who would win each matchup — they don't let you pick the teams that win, or otherwise designate a criterion for figuring out which team would win. You set up your bracket and they'll tell you who wins which games.
What I do like about the feature, though, is that it includes a realistic number of upsets. I hope strong proponents of a playoff will set these things up, play it through a few times with the same teams, and ask themselves whether a different team is really the best team in the country each time.Labels: sports
::: posted by dWj at 9:22 PM
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