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Sports ratings systems are also used to help determine the field for the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, men's professional golf tournaments, professional tennis tournaments, and NASCAR. They are often mentioned in discussions about the teams that could or should receive invitations to participate in certain contests, despite not ...
preseason_number_1: The team ranked No. 1 in the pre-season AP Poll. [[2007-08 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team|North Carolina]] ncaa_champions: The name of the team that won the NCAA Championship (the last game in the NCAA Tournament) for that season. [[2007-08 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team|Kansas]]
Players or teams are "planted" into the bracket in such a manner that the best do not meet until later in the competition, usually based on ranking from the regular season. The term was first used in tennis , [ 1 ] and is based on the notion of scattering the top players' names across the bracket in the way that a sower scatters seeds.
With the NCAA Tournament just around the corner, multiple SEC teams are fighting for position on the latest college basketball polls.. After an upset loss to Appalachian State on Dec. 3, Auburn ...
The country coefficient is used to rank the basketball leagues of Europe, and thus determine the maximum number of clubs from an association that will participate in the Basketball Champions League. This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in the Basketball Champions League games over the past three seasons. The ...
The RPI is used to determine seeding in the statewide district tournament draws for girls and boys basketball, which are Feb. 4 for the girls and Feb. 11 for the boys.
[4] [5] As the metric is averaged over the length of a player's entire career a decrease in efficiency later in his career means a player can move down in the ranking; Jordan's PER took a big hit in the final two years of his career when he returned to the game with the Washington Wizards, posting 20.7 in his penultimate season and 19.3 in his ...
These two juggernauts will be in play for the No. 1 fantasy basketball draft pick in points leagues. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) (Ron Jenkins via Getty Images)