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The NCAA match play format produces exciting tv not because it identifies the best team. but because it so often rewards an. underdog: great theater, lousy discrimination.

Indeed, but that’s just a general feature of spectactor sports; they are mostly optimized to produce more exciting television and not to identify the best team.  For example, you wouldn’t use a single elimination tournament of 68 teams (or is it more now) to identify  the best college basketball team.  You wouldn’t expand the college football playoffs to include additional teams with 2-3 losses who are clearly not “the best” as determined by a 12+ game season, etc.

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The NCAA match play format produces exciting tv not because it identifies the best team. but because it so often rewards an. underdog: great theater, lousy discrimination.

Indeed, but that’s just a general feature of spectactor sports; they are mostly optimized to produce more exciting television and not to identify the best team.  For example, you wouldn’t use a single elimination tournament of 68 teams (or is it more now) to identify  the best college basketball team.  You wouldn’t expand the college football playoffs to include additional teams with 2-3 losses who are clearly not “the best” as determined by a 12+ game season, etc.

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