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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
I find the above extremely intriguing because this method pinpoints the NCAA tournament officials who are preselected for two assignments in the opening weekend and those who are not. Notice that the lowest KenPom ranked official on each crew in the first round did not work in the second round in 31/32 games. The one exception was 69 advancing over 67. That is remarkable accuracy! Also note how the crews are seemingly constructed for a mostly even strength by distributing the lower ranked KenPom officials over those 32 crews instead of putting them together. It appears that someone coordinating the NCAA officiating assignments is actually using these KenPom rankings to create and assign the crews.
The pattern continued in the second round as 6 of the 8 officials to not advance to the second weekend were the lowest ranked member of the crew. We could inquire if the two exceptions had a noticeable error in the second round game which prevented advancing.
Finally, the Lead official (best ranked by KenPom) on every single game in the tournament so far has advanced to the next round. 100% accuracy is definitely worth noting.
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I think the correlation is that these are the officials who work the best conferences, the best games. You would think those are who's seen as the better officials. It's why I included the rankings, though, cause I wanted to see how well they predict who advances, etc.