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RTT Bracketology: A revamped formula shakes up field

It’s been a few weeks.

I spent the better part of the last three weeks mostly battling the flu, but also fixing the seeding formula. One main change was made above all else: valuing road/neutral wins more than home wins. A simple fix that almost has that “duh” feeling, but the previous formula had valued it as well, just not as much as I thought necessary. The reason for this is simply that every game played in the NCAA Tournament is a neutral game, so valuing what teams do in similar or more challenging venues during the regular season shows what a team is more capable of than that of them beating a good team at home.