- Aug 12, 2014
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In general though CBS predicts Florida 2 seeds worse than they are. Could change in final guesses, but majority of the year we could be undefeated and #1 overall and CBS will have us a 3 seed. They suck imo lolI think UF's seed is not easy to guess this year and maybe all seeds will be more problematic because of the new win quadrants. So how about a little data here.
I looked up via the brackmatrix site:
http://www.bracketmatrix.com/
and their accuracy scoring each year what ESPN (presumably Lundari), CBS (presumably Palm), the bracket martix each predicted for UF's eventual seed compared to UF's actual seed.
Here is what I found:
2017: UF was a 4 seed, ESPN projected UF a 4, CBS projected UF a 5 and the Bracket matrix average was a 4.
2014: UF was the overall number 1 seed with a 25ish game winning streak so all three had UF a 1 seed.
2013: UF was a 3 seed, ESPN said 4, CBS said 3 and the Bracket Matrix average was a 3.
2012: UF was a 7 seed, ESPN predicted 5, CBS predicted 7 and the Bracket Matrix average was 6.
2011: UF was a 2 seed, ESPN and CBS projected UF a 3 seed, while the Bracket Matrix average was a 2.
2010: UF was a 10 seed, ESPN had UF out of field, CBS had UF as a 11 seed and the Bracket Matrix average had UF a 12 seed.
2007: UF of course returned all five starters from the previous tourney championship team and was the number 1 overall seed and you might think this would be just like 2014, but no ESPN and CBS had UF as a 2 seed while the bracket matrix average had UF as a 1 seed.
2006: UF was a 3 seed, ESPN, CBS and the Bracket Matrix average all said 4.
So the bracket matrix was dead on 75% of the time, CBS was dead on 62.5% of the time and ESPN was dead on 37.5% of the time. On average the bracket matrix had UF a quarter seed to low, CBS had UF .375 seed too low or a bit more than a 3rd of a seed too low and ESPN had UF three quarters of a seed too low if I call the year they missed UF in the field at all giving UF a 14th seed.
Overall it changes year to year cause the committee changes their criteria it seems lol