Brackets and Rankings: 2024-2025

[XUMIOH12]

Someone is drunk, high, stoned, and brain damaged! There's no way that's Joe Lunardi. That's something else on the site that has nothing to do with him and that's WAAAAAAY out of whack!

They are basing the categories almost strictly on their BPI formula. They even point out in a couple of the teams that their forecast is way off from everyone else lol

[Xville]

They are basing the categories almost strictly on their BPI formula. They even point out in a couple of the teams that their forecast is way off from everyone else lol

So, they are actively letting everyone know how much their formula sucks? That's a bold strategy, Cotton.

[xu82]

Who the heck is in charge of bubble watch at ESPN? It's clear that person or staff have zero clue what is going on.

Maybe the same person who used to handle their college basketball recruiting? I haven’t looked in years, but that used to be an embarrassment! All kinds of bad and outdated info. Shut that crap down.

[XUMIOH12]

So, they are actively letting everyone know how much their formula sucks? That's a bold strategy, Cotton.

If you are using espn, ignore the bubble watch and at least look at lunardi. He's typically not as good at the seeding, but he tends to be pretty close on the in/out bubble situation.

[Xville]

If you are using espn, ignore the bubble watch and at least look at lunardi. He's typically not as good at the seeding, but he tends to be pretty close on the in/out bubble situation.

Yeah agreed. I'm not a huge fan of his from a personality standpoint, but he does do a decent job at picking them, but as you said seeding not great

[Xville]

If you are using espn, ignore the bubble watch and at least look at lunardi. He's typically not as good at the seeding, but he tends to be pretty close on the in/out bubble situation.

Yeah agreed. I'm not a huge fan of his from a personality standpoint, but he does do a decent job at picking them, but as you said seeding not great

[webxu]

Espn is boosting their espn brands, nothing more on that bubble crap. Every other source has UC no where near the bubble and X having what basically amounts to 50/50, not the 30% espn gives them. That article is a business decsion nothing more

[GoMuskies]

Someone is drunk, high, stoned, and brain damaged! There's no way that's Joe Lunardi. That's something else on the site that has nothing to do with him and that's WAAAAAAY out of whack!

Yes, ESPN has now ADMITTED they were drunk, high, stoned and brain damaged. This appears in today's version of the Bubble Watch:

"Upon further investigation, ESPN Analytics discovered there was an issue within the BPI forecast that affected the way the model was processing each team's chances, including the way it was taking in NET data in order to generate quad wins/losses."

That's pretty embarrassing. Going back to look at our more "controversial" cases, Louisville is now a lock with a 97% chance to Dance, UNC is down to 19% (from like 87% at last check), and UC has retreated to 27% despite a fairly impressive 3 game win streak. Sanity has returned. A least a bit.

Unfortunately, sanity also hit Xavier a bit on the Watch. Xavier has been downgraded to a 14% chance of making the Tournament, which sounds about right to me.

[paulxu]

[Xavier]

UNC has to have a big nil pocket. Davis should be let go.