Fanin hasn't made one coherent substantive reply to me yet so it makes perfect sense that you think he's killing it.
Getting into the tournament and getting a good seed to increase the likelihood you go deep, yeah. It's not the given you act like it is, most coaches do not do that consistently. And nobody who's not taken the regular season seriously has ever had success in the tournament, because you can't go far unless you get in. Weird how that works.
Does that mean you won't pay attention and do your silly troll game every second until the season finally matters in the tournament? Maybe there's an upside here?