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The Western Athletic Conference is changing how it seeds its men’s and women’s postseason basketball tournaments by introducing a system that will not only judge teams off of wins and losses, but also through an algorithm that will reward–and/or punish–teams based on their performances against all of their regular season opponents.
According to Matt Norlander of CBS Sports, the WAC is believed to be the first conference to introduce a conference tournament seeding method that will incorporate advanced analytics. That is to say, a team that finished second in the regular season standings, according to wins and losses, may be ranked worse than No. 2 seed when the conference tourney arrives and a program that ends with the seventh-best regular season record could be bumped up, depending on the algorithm.
