2005 Seeding Projections

In 2005, I decided to start looking at the seeding implications of the final games of the ACC regular season. I looked at the rules as defined by the ACC, and wrote a program to examine every possibility. There was a lot of indecision in 2005, as none of the teams had settled into a seed going into the final weekend, so there was a lot of discussion of what would happen if certain teams won their games. As the rules were somewhat obscure, people made honest mistakes. Doing it with a program seemed the sensible thing to do.

I started right after the penultimate weekend. That left 10 games to be played, for 1024 combinations. As the original articles were in the DBR archives, and since mangled, I've recreated the data. Alas, my commentary at the time is lost. I hope the progression from game to game shows how the seeding developed.

2005 was an unusual year, there were 11 ACC teams, as expansion was partially completed. Boston College would join the ACC in 2006.

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