Since our last thread about the Dev Blog has been sabotaged I am going to start a new one to discuss the dev blog and seble's updates.

Colonels I ask that if you have nothing that pertains to the Dev Blog that you stay out of this thread.

We've done some analysis of tournament seeding in several recent NCAA seasons and determined that the factors that significantly influence a team's seed are RPI, SOS rank, and top 25 ranking. We actually rank all teams during the top 25 ranking process, so there is no limitation to using that.

So the plan to start with is to weight those 3 factors to determine both who gets into the tournament and where they're seeded.

It's possible there may need to be some other factors considered, but the simpler it is the easier it is to understand why one team gets a bid over another. The new ranking system should fall more in line with RPI anyway, so hopefully there won't be cases of ranked teams with low RPIs being out or seeded low.

Also, I'm going to be wait until after Christmas to open up the test world. I'm using a copy of Knight and I'd like to copy down the current data right after the end of the next recruiting cycle for testing purposes. That will give coaches who are in Knight a base knowledge of the team they'll be testing with to better compare once the new engine is in use for testing.

Again, I really do appreciate everyone's patience during this process. Obviously the original intent was to get this release out the door much earlier, but there have been a few unforeseen delays. I'm still very excited about this though and I hope you all are too.