NCAA Tournament Bracket Formation: Most Important Factors for #2 Seeds

Continuing with my reports on the most important factors in the Women's Soccer Committee's decision-making on NCAA Tournament at large selections and seeds, here is a table showing the most important factors in deciding that "yes," a team gets a #2 seed:

Factor	Yes 2 Seed
ARPI Rating and Top 60 CO	12
ARPI Rank and Top 60 CO Score	10
Conference ARPI and CO Score	9
Top 60 CO Score	9
ANCRPI Rating and CO Score	8
Conference Standing and Top 60 CO Score	8
ARPI Rank and Top 60 CO Rank	8
ARPI Rating and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	8
CO Score and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	8
ARPI Rating	7
ARPI Rating and Top 60 CO Rank	7
Conference Standing and Top 60 CO Rank	7
Top 50 Results Rank and CO Score	7
Conference Rank and CO Rank	7
ARPI Rank and Top 50 Results Rank	6
ARPI Rating and Top 50 Results Rank	6
ARPI Rating and Conference Standing	6
ARPI Rank and ANCRPI Rating	6
ANCRPI Rank and Top 50 Results Rank	5
ARPI Rank and Conference Rank	5
ARPI Rank and Rating	5
ANCRPI Rank and Top 50 Results Score	5
ARPI Rank and ANCRPI Rank	5
Top 50 Results Rank and CO Rank	5
ANCRPI Rating and Top 50 Results Rank	5
ARPI Rank and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	5

This table shows the 26 most important factors in determining which teams get #2 seeds.  As with the #1 seeds, teams' ARPI Ratings and Ranks, paired with their Top 60 Common Opponent Results, are the most powerful factors.  (And, once again, Head to Head Results do not appear on the list of the most powerful factors.)

The following table shows the 25 most important factors in determining which teams do not get #2 seeds:

Factor	No 2 Seed
ARPI Rank and Top 60 CO Rank	477
ARPI Rating and Top 50 Results Rank	472
ARPI Rank and Top 60 CO Score	467
ARPI Rank and Conference Rank	460
ARPI Rank	457
ANCRPI Rank and CO Rank	455
ANCRPI Rank and CO Score	452
ARPI Rating and Top 50 Results Score	450
ANCRPI Rating and CO Score	443
ARPI Rating and Top 60 CO Rank	437
ARPI Rating and Conference ARPI	436
ARPI Rating and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	434
ARPI Rank and Rating	434
ARPI Rank and ANCRPI Rank	431
Conference Rank and CO Rank	423
Top 50 Results Rank and CO Score	422
ARPI Rating	421
HTH Score and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	411
Top 50 Results Rank and CO Rank	409
ARPI Rank and Top 50 Results Rank	408
CO Score and Last 8 Games (Poor Results)	407
Top 60 CO Rank	407
ARPI Rating and Conference Rank	406
ARPI Rating and Top 60 HTH	405
ARPI Rating and ANCRPI Rank	403

Again, ARPI Rank paired with Top 60 Common Opponents Rank is the most powerful factor, with ARPI paired with Top 50 Results Rank and paired with Conference Rank also being powerful factors.

ARPI Rank, by itself, is the most powerful single factor.  By itself, this factor excludes all but the top 14 ARPI teams each year from getting a #2 seed, just as it excludes all but the top 7 ARPI teams from getting a #1 seed.