Fixing opening week with ScheduleMatic
by Ken Pomeroy on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
There’s an epidemic taking hold of college hoops: Too many games staged early in the season are mismatches. According to FanMatch, there were 1,451 games played from the beginning of last season through December 7. Of those games, the underdog had at most a five percent chance of winning in 288 of them. In addition, there were 217 games involving a D-I team playing a non-D-I team. Overall, there were 505 glorified exhibitions played in the first four weeks of the season, which means a little more than one in every three games was decided before it started. Underdogs won 18 of these games.
College basketball struggles to make a splash when its season begins and there’s incentive to make early-season hoops more interesting to the casual fan. My idea is to turn over the first week of the season to my game generator, ScheduleMatic, which will schedule the first…