I'm on board with the proposal.
Looks good to me as well
Looks good here. Except I might add a blank between Purdue and the group, although I guess Purdue lost to Rutgers, won by 1 at MSU, and hasn't gone to Bloomington yet.
Since there is general agreement at least so far, I've gone ahead and made the changes.
@ELA , as far as putting a blank tier between Purdue and the rest, I'll wait and see what happens this weekend when Purdue travels to Bloomington. If they win, then we'll add a tier between, if not then we will not.
So the tiers are:
- PU
- RU+1, MSU, IU
- NU+1, IA, IL, M, UMD, PSU, tOSU, UW-1
- UNL-2
- BLANK
- MN+1
As you can see, only Nebraska is outside of +/-1 in net upsets and there isn't any easy way to solve it.
Updated projected final standings/BTT seeds are:
- 18-2/29-2 Purdue
- 12-8/20-11 Rutgers
- 11-9/20-11 Indiana
- 11-9/19-12 Iowa
- 11-9/19-12 Michigan State
- 11-9/20-11 Illinois
- 10-10/19-12 Maryland
- 10-10/19-12 Northwestern
- 10-10/16-15 Michigan
- 10-10/19-12 Penn State
- 9-11/17-14 Ohio State (wins tie with UW based on H2H due to no game in Madison)
- 9-11/17-13 Wisconsin (loses tie with tOSU based on H2H due to no game in Madison)
- 7-13/14-17 Nebraska
- 1-19/7-23 Minnesota
Tiebreakers for the multi-team ties:
The four-way tie for 3rd/4th/5th/6th at 11-9 is broken by H2H2H2H:
- 4-2 Indiana because they won in Champaign
- 3-2 Iowa because they don't visit Champaign
- 2-3 MSU because they don't host Illinois
- 1-3 Illinois because they don't host IA, don't visit East Lansing, and lost at home to Indiana
The four-way tie for 7th/8th/9th/10th at 10-10 is broken by H2H2H2H:
- 3-2 Maryland because they do not visit Evanston
- 2-2 Northwestern because they do not visit State College nor host UMD.
- 3-3 Michigan
- 2-3 Penn State because they do not host Northwestern
NOTE:
Northwestern and Michigan are both projected to go .500 H2H2H2H (Michigan at 3-3 and Northwestern at 2-2). Per B1G Rules, that DOES NOT get decided based on their H2H (wouldn't matter, they play twice and are projected to split). Instead, those two teams drop to the next tiebreaker which is record against the best team(s) in the league, then the next, etc:
Both are projected to go 0-season against 18-2 Purdue.
Next is 12-8 Rutgers. Northwestern plays them twice and SHOULD go 1-1 while Michigan does not host them and should go 0-1. That SHOULD be it but Northwestern lost at home to the Scarlet Knights so they are both projected to go 0-season against Rutgers. NOTE, the fact that NU is projected to go 0-2 while M is projected to go 0-1 DOES NOT matter. The rules state explicitly that 0-1 is NOT better than 0-2.
Next is the FOUR teams projected to go 11-9, MSU, IU, IA, IL:
- 5-2 Northwestern: Doesn't host MSU, won in East Lansing and Bloomington.
- 2-4 Michigan: Hosts neither IL nor IA.
NOTE:
All of that was just to determine the difference between the #8 and #9 seed which is only relevant insofar as it determines which jerseys the two teams wear in their BTT opener.
Anyway, based on all of the above, the match-ups at the B1G Tournament at the United Center in Chicago, IL would be:
Wednesday, March 8, BTN:
- #11 Ohio State vs #14 Minnesota, 830
- #12 Wisconsin vs #13 Nebraska, 6
Thursday, March 9, BTN:
- #5 Michigan State vs UW/UNL, 230
- #6 Illinois vs tOSU/MN, 9
- #7 Maryland vs #10 Penn State, 630
- #8 Northwestern vs #9 Michigan, noon
Friday, March 10, BTN:
- #1 Purdue vs NU/M, noon
- #2 Rutgers vs UMD/PSU, 630
- #3 Indiana vs IL/tOSU/MN, 9
- #4 Iowa vs MSU/UW/UNL, 230
Saturday, March 11, CBS:
- PU/NU/M vs IA/MSU/UW/UNL, 1
- RU/UMD/PSU vs IU/IL/tOSU/MN, 330
Sunday, March 12, CBS:
- PU/NU/M/IA/MSU/UW/UNL vs RU/UMD/PSU/IU/IL/tOSU/MN, 330