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	MAYB/Schedule page
		Tournament choices for Summer 2005 are listed on the following page.
		Print out the Summer 2005 tournament selection, Circle all tournaments you are entering, and return to the National Office at 216 N. Main, P.O.Box 348, Newton, KS 67114.
		Tournament selections may be changed (refund or selection of another tournament) before the tournament deadline.
	www.mayb.com /tournamentsummer.htm (152 words)

	Determining the Guest List for the Big (Ice) Dance
		NCAA Division I hockey tournament is seeded largely by statistical analysis.
		Problem is, the selection process has been changing slightly every year, and in the past it was difficult to find out the current rules in advance.
		In addition to revising one of its selection criteria, the committee noted that it reserves the right to evaluate each team based on the relative strength of their respective conference using the overall conference ratings percentage index (RPI) in determining competitive equity.
	www.slack.net /~whelan/tbrw/1999/pairwise.shtml (1523 words)

	USCHO.com :: U.S. College Hockey Online :: Frequently Asked Questions — FAQ: NCAA Selection Process
		Ironically, the selection of the fields for the NCAA men's ice hockey tournament is one of the more clear-cut processes in collegiate athletics.
		As opposed to basketball, where considerable subjectivity is involved in selection and especially seeding, the ice hockey selections and seedings are a streamlined process which are, more or less, cut and dried.
		So losing a tournament quarterfinal would mean the team could drop in PWR, and maybe even miss the NCAA tournament because of that, but it wouldn't be solely based on those quarterfinal games, nor should it be.
	www.uscho.com /FAQs?data=selection (3383 words)

	Evolutionary Algorithms 3 Selection
		The first step is the selection of the first half of the mating population uniform at random (or using one of the other mentioned selection algorithms, for example, stochastic universal sampling or truncation selection).
		The parameter for truncation selection is the truncation threshold Trunc.
		In tournament selection [GD91] a number Tour of individuals is chosen randomly from the population and the best individual from this group is selected as parent.
	www.geatbx.com /docu/algindex-02.html (2898 words)

	AthlonSports.com - How They Select the 65 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Granted, the NCAA Tournament is a month-long, single-elimination tournament that involves 65 teams, whereas the BCS includes only the elite eight (10 in 2005) teams in four (five in 2005) bowls to be played during the week surrounding New Year’s Day.
		There are 31 automatic bids given to conference tournament champions, which leaves 34 at-large bids to iron out, making the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee’s job nearly impossible and their results even more remarkable.
		Tournament worthy teams are often excluded from the field of 65 simply because they were unable to win their conference tournament and at-large bids tend to go to the more televised major conference affiliated schools.
	www.athlonsports.com /article.php3?story_id=2953 (1398 words)

	BostonSportsHub.com - March Madness
		That includes teams that have gained automatic bids by winning their conference tournament (or regular season championship in the case of the Ivy League) or are clear-cut locks based on their won-loss record.
		The process by which the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Selection Committee chooses the 34 at-large bids (those teams that did not gain automatic entry by winning their conference championship) is not an exact science, but the major selection criteria are as follows:
		The fact that Air Force was invited to the tournament with an RPI of 70 shows that the Committee is thinking very differently about the selection process than they have in the past.
	www.bostonsportshub.com /bubble2.htm (1553 words)

	BostonSportsHub.com - Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament
		Selection Sunday is over and as usual the seedings look a lot like they were chosen with the "dartboard method." Louisville and Boston College each lost only four games this season but somehow managed to get #4 seeds.
		Meanwhile, the Selection Committee's darling, the UConn Huskies, were given a #2 seed in what is now the most bizarre seeding decision in tournament history.
		The Chairman of the Selection Committee is from Iowa.
	www.bostonsportshub.com /madness.htm (347 words)

	Determining the Guest List for the Big (Ice) Dance
		In this enlightened age, the NCAA Division I hockey tournament is seeded largely by statistical analysis.
		Problem is, the selection process has been changing slightly every year, and in the past it's been difficult to find out the current rules in advance.
		The remaining four to eight at-large teams are selected according to the pairwise method.
	www.slack.net /~whelan/tbrw/1998/pairwise.shtml (1184 words)

	The Sporting News: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. (college bask... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The players who are hungry for their moment in the NCAA Tournament are the faces that bring humanity to the faceless NCAA.
		When it comes to filling out the bracket, the force that drives the people on the selection committee is not the seeding, but the selection.
		Tulsa was bumped from the Missouri Valley Tournament.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14887936&... (2169 words)

	Genetic Algorithms, Tournament Selection, and the Effects of Noise - Miller, Goldberg (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Abstract: Tournament selection is a useful and robust selection mechanism commonly used by genetic algorithms.
		The selection pressure of tournament selection directly varies with the tournament size --- the more competitors, the higher the resulting selection pressure.
		This article develops a model, based on order statistics, that can be used to quantitatively predict the resulting selection pressure of a tournament of a given size.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /86198.html (495 words)

	ESPN.com: NCB - Bracket break: NCAA to separate top seeds
		I salute the changes made by the NCAA Tournament selection committee to improve the NCAA Tournament.
		If this new method of seeding were applied to the 2003 NCAA Tournament, Kentucky and Arizona would have been slotted on opposite sides of the bracket instead of being matched up in a potential national semifinal.
		The selection committee got rid of the directional names because of the confusion created by the introduction of the pod system in 2002.
	espn.go.com /ncb/news/2003/0708/1578110.html (636 words)

	How to Predict a Winner
		Coleman and Lynch also made selections for the women’s NCAA Division I tournament for the first time this year, correctly picking 31 of 34 teams for a 91 percent accuracy rate.
		Coleman and Lynch have applied statistics to the factors used by the selection committee to predict the selection of at-large teams – teams that did not get an automatic bid to the tournament by winning their conference tournament.
		According to the professors, the accuracy of their Dance Card – and the factors and weights it includes — suggests that the tournament selection committee is fairly predictable in its decisions, despite annual barbs from fans, teams and the media.
	www.sas.com /news/sascom/2004q3/feature_tech.html (761 words)

	press release - Men's and Women's Hoops Selection Sunday Specials on ESPN, March 14 (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Renowned for his tournament success as a coach, Lavin, through his last season in 2002-03 at UCLA, was only one of two coaches to take their teams to the "Sweet 16" five times in six years since the tournament field was expanded in 1985.
		Once the field of 65 teams is chosen on Selection Sunday, fans can test their prognostication skills by choosing the winners of every match-up throughout the NCAA Division I Tournament.
		Throughout ESPN Selection Sunday Special, ESPN.com’s SportsNation will be gathering the pulse of the nation - polling fans for their thoughts on what teams were snubbed, what teams were lucky to get in, which is the easiest and toughest region and more.
	www.joinourteam.espn.com /ESPNToday/2004/March_04/selection.htm (1030 words)

	SSRN-A Tournament of Virtue by Lawrence Solum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An alternative is to select judges for their possession of the judicial virtues - intelligence, wisdom, courage, and justice.
		A tournament of judges would be won by judges who possess arbitrary luck and the vices of originality and mindless productivity; a tournament of virtue would be lost by those who possess the virtues of justice and wisdom.
		A real world tournament of judges, moreover, would be gamed, leading to the selection of vicious rather than virtuous judges.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=588322 (567 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		// Tournament selection randomly selects a number of genetic programs from the population.
		So be careful with the selection method you choose and check a // few methods out before doing thousands of runs.
		Note that each individual parent and child is selected from // a DIFFERENT tournament, this may or may not be the implementation you want but is // easily alterable.....
	dynamics.org /UH_ICS/691_GP/GP_SRC/gpc++-0.4/tourn.cc (443 words)

	GEATbx for Matlab (v. 3.7): Function seltour
		Nsel - Number of individuals to be selected Output parameters: NewChromIx- Column vector containing the indexes of the selected individuals relative to the original population, shuffeld.
		The tournament size Tour is determined from the highest fitness value ceil(max(FitnV)).
		For Tour==1 tournament selection is identical to random selection (no selective pressure).
	www.geatbx.com /docu/seltour.html (192 words)

	NCAA Tournament Selection Committee Faces New Challenges :: First-year chairman Lee Fowler and the NCAA Selection ...
		NCAA Tournament Selection Committee Faces New Challenges :: First-year chairman Lee Fowler and the NCAA Selection Committee will attempt to keep teams closer to home in the first two rounds of this year's men's basketball tournament.
		The selection committee, however, has a chance to make the opening-round matchups quite different.
		The tournament field will be announced March 10, and play starts two days later with the opening-round game between the 64th and 65th teams in Dayton, Ohio.
	nabc.collegesports.com /sports/c-baskbl/spec-rel/022102aaa.html (613 words)

	Mathematical Modelling of UMDAc Algorithm with Tournament Selection. Behaviour on Linear and Quadratic Functions ...
		To this end, the algorithm with tournament selection is modelled mathematically, assuming an infinite number of tournaments.
		The mathematical model is then used to study the algorithm's behaviour in the minimization of linear functions L(x) = a0 + i=1 a i x i and quadratic function Q(x) = i, with x = (x1,.
		33 The Equation for Response to Selection and its Use for Predi..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /542280.html (392 words)

	No. 1 Stanford To Be Featured On ESPN Sunday :: Cardinal will be featured on Tournament Selection Show.
		Stanford, who received the automatic bid from the Pacific-10 Conference after winning the tournament last Monday with a 56-42 victory over Arizona State, will be featured on ESPN as the team and the nation finds out where the Cardinal will be seeded in the 2005 NCAA Tournament.
		It is the 14th Pac-10 title and the third-straight conference tournament championship for Stanford.
		The tournament begins with first round coverage on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19 and concludes with the Final Four from Indianapolis on April 3 and 5.
	gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/031105aaa.html (304 words)

	NCAA Women's Tournament "DanceCard" by Jay Coleman and Allen Lynch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Dance Card is a formula derived by Coleman and Lynch as an estimate of the decision rule that the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee uses when picking the teams that will get at-large bids to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
		Using the decisions of the NCAA Women's Tournament Selection Committee from the years 2000 through 2003, and 42 pieces of information (e.g.
		The high level of accuracy and consistency of the model is strong evidence that the Selection Committees (which differ in composition each year) are actually quite consistent from year to year.
	www.unf.edu /~jcoleman/wdance.htm (995 words)

	NCAA Tournament "DanceCard" by Jay Coleman and Allen Lynch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Using the decisions of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee from the years 1994 through 1999, and 42 pieces of information (e.g.
		The formula's best year was in 2001, when it correctly predicting 33 of the 34 available at-large Tournament slots (or 97.06%): the Dance Card predicted that Richmond should have gotten in, whereas the Selection Committee chose Missouri instead.
		Selected quotes from that interview (alongside quotes from the CEO of SAS, the VP of CRM for Oracle, and others) were also featured on DestinationCRM.com in “Hot Seat: Will Analytics Remain a Stand-alone Product or Become Yet Another CRM Module?” on May 3.
	www.unf.edu /~jcoleman/dance.htm (2121 words)

	2001-2001 Womens National Team Tournament Selection Events
		The top draw must be an Open, A, 6.0, 5.5, or 5.0 draw to qualify as a Tournament Selection Event.
		All US based WISPA tournaments, including qualifier draws, are included as Women's Tournament Selection Events.
		A Squad Training may also be included as a Women's Tournament Selection Event.
	us-squash.org /squash/women/nationalteam/selectiontournamentevents.html (206 words)

	MD1 NCAA Tournament Selection Criteria
		A team must play a minimum of 10 games against Division I opponents during the regular season to be considered for selection.
		To be considered as an at-large selection, a team must have a.500 or better record against all opponents.
		If an analysis of the primary selection factors listed above does not result in a decision by the committee regarding at-large selections, the following secondary criteria are evaluated (although not in priority order):
	www.laxpower.com /update04/binmen/ncaa01.php (271 words)

	HWF Presents Natural Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I now feel the weight of fufilling my part of this tournament which is rewarding you for your effort with an effort of my own in the form of well written results.
		Natural Selection: Summer Solstice will feature a one week round of roleplaying in the 10 days leading up to the date of the show in which each competitor may post three (3) roleplays.
		Their are no limits on when you may post your three roleplays you can choose to post them all the first day, the last day, one every three days, or any other combination your heart desires.
	home.triad.rr.com /davidowen (1255 words)

	R-MC Women's Lacrosse: 2002 NCAA Division III Tournament Selection
		The Eagles were 4-1 in the Capital Athletic Conference this season, and finished second in the CAC tournament, falling 5-4 in the title game against St. Mary's.
		Mary Washington is currently ranked #11 nationally in the IWLCA poll, and #2 in the South Atlantic Region.
		This is the second time in three seasons that Randolph-Macon has won the ODAC title and advanced to the NCAA tournament.
	www.rmc.edu /athletics/lacrosse/womens/2002NCAAsA.asp (408 words)

	NCAA Soccer Tournament Selection Show Quotes ::
		We don't have to travel on Thursday and the players get to sleep in their own beds.
		They can go to class which I am sure they are very happy about because they missed last week at the conference tournament.
		Hopefully we will get some people out at the game supporting us and that could be a really big boost for the players.
	kuathletics.collegesports.com /sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/110804aad.html (572 words)

	Sine Qua Non: Comment on Live Blogging the NCAA Tournament Selection
		Their defense has carried them all year and if they do well in the tournament it will be because of their defense yet again.
		The selection process will always come down to a group of "knowledgeable" men sitting around a table making some last-minute estimates, and making sure that the big conferences get sufficient representation.
		Marc, I am old enough to remember when the tournament only had 32 teams which is where my dislike of the automatic bids going to tournament champions started.
	www.spleenville.com /~lilith33/blog/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=8316 (1047 words)

	The Sporting News: Working the lobby: let's go to the action behin... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the more covert aspects of the NCAA Tournament selection process is the work done by conference offices to advocate the candidacy of their teams.
		The committee members insist the selections and seedings are based mostly on data and their own impressions as they watch teams play.
		Just before selection weekend, the leagues present organized material that champions the strength of their teams.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:114328642&refid=ip_almanac_hf (904 words)

	Army Women's Tennis Set For NCAA Tournament Selection Show :: Announcement to be Made on ESPNEWS
		The Army women's tennis team will find out it first round opponent and destination during the Selection Show as the Black Knights make their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2003.
		Army will be sent to one of 16 campus locations for the first and second round of the NCAA Tournament which is set to begin on May 13.
		Senior captain Marissa Limsiaco and freshman Amy Morgenstern shared Tournament MVP honors as the pair teamed up to win a two doubles matches and a singles match apiece during the two-day event.
	www.cstv.com /sports/w-tennis/stories/050305aad.html (435 words)

	SI.com - Writers - DAVIS: Tournament selection surprises - Tuesday March 8, 2005 4:23PM
		The selection committee discerns the difference between a good loss and a bad loss, and Shaheen conceded that margin of victory plays a part.
		If the committee is trying to decide between, say, West Virginia and Notre Dame, it can ask for a "head-to-head report." This shows not only how the teams did when they played each other (Notre Dame beat the Mountaineers 70-57 in Morgantown in their only regular-season meeting), but also how they did against common opponents.
		Not only is setting up matchups not in the selection guidelines, but according to Shaheen, the group is so pressed for time to get its work done it can't afford to waste precious minutes looking for subplots.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/writers/seth_davis/03/08/hoop.thoughts (1397 words)

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