Official RPI Released

#3
#3
We are a 7-6 team with no good wins and a terrible loss. It was to be expected. Nowhere to go but up from here. We will be alright in the end.
 
#4
#4
Kind of sad that just over a year ago we were #1 over Georgetown by a significant margin.
 
#6
#6
VolThis said:
I love that there is a team that is 4-11 above us...
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Mississippi Valley State is 1-11, with their only win against TSU, which was a 90-89 2OT victory, yet they are ranked 154 due to their OOC schedule.

One good win will shoot us up.
 
#7
#7
Beat Florida and we will rocket up.
 
#9
#9
calban said:
How far do we jump if we go on another 4 game winning streak next 2 weeks?
Just dreamin.
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Hey, if Golden is going to put up 30 a night, don't put it past us. :)
 
#10
#10
zjcvols said:
Hey, if Golden is going to put up 30 a night, don't put it past us. :)
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Haha. I'll believe that when I see it. Golden is so inconsistent. Hope he plays well against Memphis and Florida, because it could set the tone for the rest of the SEC schedule.

A win against either Memphis or Florida shoots us way up into the 100's. Still a LONG way to go though.
 
#11
#11
No1UtFanJmAn147 said:
Haha. I'll believe that when I see it. Golden is so inconsistent. Hope he plays well against Memphis and Florida, because it could set the tone for the rest of the SEC schedule.

A win against either Memphis or Florida shoots us way up into the 100's. Still a LONG way to go though.
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Beat Memphis first, then get to Florida.

We can only do one game at a time.
 
#12
#12
l3rewski said:
Mississippi Valley State is 1-11, with their only win against TSU, which was a 90-89 2OT victory, yet they are ranked 154 due to their OOC schedule.

One good win will shoot us up.
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I agree. I just find it humorous to see how low some teams can rank due to strength of schedule woes.
 
#14
#14
RPI's mean VERY LITTLE this time of year. Relax. Now if we're still 200+ at the end of the season, yeah you can act like a 5th grade girl....
 
#16
#16
Not that means a whole lot on Jan 3rd. but realtimerpi.com has us a 279 with a "strength of schedule" ranking of 287. WTF?

I highly doubt there are 286 teams that have played a tougher schedule than we have with Duke, Memphis, Pitt, Charleston, etc.
 
#19
#19
I've lost faith in the RPI stat. We weren't really the #1 team a few years ago, and we're definitely not in the 280s right now.
 
#24
#24
The teams Tennessee has beaten thus far have a combined record of 15-58 against Div. 1 teams. That's why your RPI is so poor. The record of the teams you beat is what the whole system is based on. The only good RPI teams Tennessee has played thus far are Duke and Memphis. Playing too many dogs like UNC-Greensboro (1-13), Louisiana-Monroe (1-13), Austin Peay (2-12), Citadel (1-10) and Chattanooga (3-9)
 
#25
#25
Humdinger is right. The RPI and SOS formulas are not subjective and are void of any bias. The same formula that determines that we are ranked in the 280's is the same formula that has determined that Syracuse is #1 in the RPI and Long Beach State has the #1 SOS.

While we as fans can choose to disagree with the perceived strength of team A and team B, we are going to be guided by preconceived notions of how good a team is or isn't in our opinion. To say you have lost faith in the system equates to saying you never had faith in the system to begin with, as it is largely unchanged and without regard to team names, historical relevance, or any other of the notions we use, be it intentional or otherwise..

Both measure the net value of teams you have played at any point in the season and also the teams they have played. As humdinger pointed out, we have played some sorry teams with sorry records and even lost to one of them.

Both RPI and SOS will be elevated in the coming weeks as we face much better competition going forward. The more of those games we win, the higher our RPI climbs as well.
 
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