Month: January 2026

Conference Yearly Records

Bracket Master has been enhanced to provide more detail about a Conference’s yearly performance in the NCAA© Basketball Championship Tournament.  Previously the app displayed the conference team’s aggregate win-loss record in the tournament and the round of furthest advancement in the bracket.  We’ve added the total number of tournament berths received and our exclusive BEST© and PTP© scores that describe overall achievement and performance relative to expectations.

The Conference Teams Page is broken down into two tabs, Teams, which lists the active and previous member colleges, and Tournament History, which catalogs all the seasons the conference has sent a member into the tournament.

Tapping on a particular season will expand the row to show the team that received the conference’s automatic berth for winning the conference championship, the team (or teams, if tied) that advanced furthest in the tournament, and all the other teams that received tournament bids.  Tap on a team logo to navigate to their apex (latest) game in that year’s bracket.  The number next to a team’s logo is their seed number.  Seed numbers were not used in tournaments prior to 1979.  If the list of teams exceeds the width of the display, the list can be scrolled with a gesture.

Note that all Conferences have not always been awarded an automatic bid.  Additionally, our data source for auto berths only has this information back to 1995.  We will attempt to expand this information in the future.

See the app screen’s Help page (accessed via the question mark in the upper-right corner) if you have any questions about usage or terminology.  Details on the BEST and PTP calculations are can also be found there.

Team Schedules

Our first new feature of 2026 is complete game schedules for all Division 1 teams going back to 2010, including all past game results.  Also presented is a detailed categorization of game results by game type.

The Team-Season Page is broken down into three tabs, Tournament Results and Advanced Metrics (information that existed previously), Team Schedule, and Result Details.  Tap the tab headers to navigate between them.

Besides the score of games, the Team Schedule presents if a game is home, away, or on a neutral court, if the game is in-conference, non-conference, conference tournament, or post-season tournament, and the quadrant categorization of the team’s opponent.  Information may span off-screen to the right — scroll horizontally to see everything.

2025 Schedule of Florida Gators

The Game Result Details tab breaks down a team’s season record by court location, opponent type, opponent quadrant, close games, overtimes, and blowouts.  Close Games are any games that finish within three points or less, or that went into overtime.  Blowouts are any games that finish with a margin of twenty points or more that did not go into overtime. A game that finishes in overtime with a twenty-point margin will count as Close but not as a Blowout.

Now that we have regular season game results in our data set, we are planning to add a game search utility similar to our existing tournament game search.

See the app screen’s Help page (accessed via the question mark in the upper-right corner) if you have any questions about usage or terminology.  Details on the Quadrant System game categorization are described there.