Comments on: The NBA Playoffs, BCS-Style

By: Underbruin

Underbruin — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:29:12 +0000

I'm in agreement with Chris. I think that the Rose Bowl would have passed on the Nuggs, because their reputation has really been made over the past 15 games or so. Instead they probably would have selected the Blazers - built-in growing rivalry with L.A., Oregon fans travel well to SoCal, plenty of media storylines, etc.

By: HRA

HRA — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:51:44 +0000

Is it not possible that only 9 teams would qualify since teams must be in the top 15 and there cannot more than 2 teams from a division?

By: Jason J

Jason J — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:39:10 +0000

i actually like that seeding better than the actual seeding... winner of 1 vs 16 would face the winner of 8 v 9 in round 2. etc.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:20:02 +0000

oh, that's good fun, but I don't understand why the Rose would select the Nuggets when they finished 8th in your SRS standings. especially since at the start of the playoffs, noone really knew how good the Nuggets were. if I were on that committee, I'd have selected the Rockets or Blazers. how about this for a tweak: let the host team chose their opponent.

By: Justin Kubatko

Justin Kubatko — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:48:24 +0000

Gerrit wrote:

You might want to keep in mind that the BCS doesn’t take into account scoring margin (to discourage teams from running up the score) and also has a coaches poll element.

I know, but I figured I spent more time than I probably should have on this silliness and decided to go for simplicity.

By: Gerrit

Gerrit — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:35:00 +0000

San Antonio vs. Phoenix in the Fiesta Bowl. That would be cool.

What's interesting is that it looks like the actual championship will be Orlando vs LA. Neither of those teams would make it to your theoretical BCS championship game.

You might want to keep in mind that the BCS doesn't take into account scoring margin (to discourage teams from running up the score) and also has a coaches poll element.