The NCAA generally gets the best teams (as compared to NIT etc). Would anyone dispute that? So, I don't get the argument about 'there are four tournaments.
I am referring to the four regions where teams are assigned by a committee and have no ability to play the teams from another region. The regions are hardly "equal" and become even more unbalanced based of upsets. Because of the regional approach, it is impossible, and inappropriate to say Wichita State is better than, and should be ranked higher than, Duke because they won their regional tournament while Duke lost in the finals of theirs. Or that Marquette is better than Kansas because they made it to the finals of their regional tournament while Kansas lost in their regional semis.
Teams play about 30 or so games per year, with most of them counting toward getting into the NCAA and many of them being in the NCAAs. So, you can compare teams.
Agree, over the course of that body of work a comparison is more valid than over the course of two weekends.
I'm a business man. I judge on results.
As am I.
But your argument is like taking one criteria - sales - and using that to decide "best product." Does Horton build the best home? Trex build the best composite deck? GM the best car? My clients, would argue no - there are too many other influences to solely look at sales. Additionally, you are taking one criteria and compressing it into two weekends. The only comparison in business that I have experienced like that is advertising sweeps and everyone (in the industry) knows how misleading and inaccurate that model is.
Sorry; but I'll take reality over theory. We beat Georgetown, so better when it counted Same with Wichita State over columbus.
And, the argument above misses the point. Business perspective doesn't say that we companre unlike things in a contest of opinion. Business compares actual results of two of a kind in the same area.
So, business comparison says that if A sells more than B in a key sales contest, then the conclusion that A is a better salesperson than B is not unreasonable....is the best conclusion. Business perspective favors ACTUAL RESULTS over theory.
There was a guy on my high school hoops team who looked splendidly athletic in his uni. Coach put him on the starting varsity in the first week of practice--heck, he looked like a ballplayer.
That lasted about a day and a half until it became evident that he could not play. He was sent right back to the j.v. (true story).
Results > assumptions/theory.