That was a national championship game? 44 days of hype that lasted all but 3 minutes. New York Times said it best, as they always do. They called the football game played here Monday night a national championship, a title clash for the ages, epic, monumental, historic. Then Notre Dame kicked the ball off.
The Roosevelts recently demonstrated how poorly the BCS system would have fared in selecting the Super Bowl participants over the past decade. On Monday we discovered it did even worse with the World Series. Today, we look at how different the NBA Finals would have been under a BCS system. We again uses ESPN’s Power Rankings as our BCS substitute, and select the highest rated team at the end of the regular season from each conference. The highlights and full results from the past 9 years (the NBA Power Rankings only go back to 2004) are below. The actual NBA champion made the BCS NBA Finals 3 times (2009 Lakers, 2008 Celtics, 2004 Pistons). The system correctly picked 1 NBA Finals matchup (2008 Lakers vs. Celtics) The system correctly selected only 5 out of 18 actual NBA Finals participants. The Bulls are the biggest winner, increasing their Finals appearances from 0 to 3, and Suns are close behind, increasing from 0 to 2. Other notable winners include the Cavs, Pistons, and Spurs who all gain an additional appearance. The Heat are the biggest losers by far, failing to make any to make any NBA Finals under a BCS system. The Magic and Thunder more »
The Roosevelts recently demonstrated how poorly the BCS system would have fared in selecting the Super Bowl participants over the past decade. Today we look at Major League Baseball, and discover the system does considerably worse in determining the participants in the World Series. We again uses ESPN’s Power Rankings as our BCS substitute, and select the highest rated team at the end of the regular season from the American and National Leagues. The highlights and full results from the past 10 years are below.
It appears the BCS Championship Game, as we know it, is on it’s way out. The Roosevelts salute the passing of an absurd era by looking at how the broken system would have affected our professional sports leagues. Today we look at the NFL.
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