RPI guys, What are we now?

#53
#53
calban said:
I think scoring margin was mentioned at the bottom in comments and how to get around it. They are touting their BPI system, but there are a lot of other articles out there on the subject that don't.

I've always thought the system was flawed because of all the low mid majors that rise to the top because they beat a lot of nobodies. We're penalized because we play 10 ranked teams every year. Somethings wrong with it.
I mean take a look at some of the teams that are ahead of us and better teams behind us.
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Some of those same anomalies occur in all ranking systems. Just look on Kenpom at the 10 teams in front of UT. Also, if ESPN was really putting their BPI out there for the betterment of basketball, they wouldn't put it on the premium part of their site.
 
#55
#55
zansdad said:
Some of those same anomalies occur in all ranking systems. Just look on Kenpom at the 10 teams in front of UT. Also, if ESPN was really putting their BPI out there for the betterment of basketball, they wouldn't put it on the premium part of their site.
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The inclusion of incredibly subjective factors like 'missing key players' will keep the BPI from gaining steam, IMO. If they really want it to catch on, then they need to do a better job of explaining how it works. A lot of people don't like the RPI, but at least they can understand it. It's not hard to find an explanation of exactly how the RPI works.
 
#56
#56
bleedingTNorange said:
That's how I feel.

Stomping miss st would be a nice statement. Them losing to uga and us stomping uga would be even better.

I'm rooting for UF tomorrow.
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If someone could guarantee me that UK will lose in the NCAAT if they beat UF and win the SECT, then I might feel differently. Otherwise, I can't bring myself to want UK and Calipari to beat anyone...ever.
 
#59
#59
zansdad said:
And both of these guys are ESPN employees promoting the BPI. I cant take any ESPN employee seriously because they all have a company drivrn agenda

Also. All those other systems measure winning margin which the RPI does not. And the minute they start using a tool that measures scoring margin as part of a teams resume then things are going to get pretty ugly. And ironically invalidate the data itself. To make an analogy, a placebo only works if you don't tell the patient. The minute he knows it's a placebo the effect is lost. Same thing with scoring margins ( one of the more tauted of the "strengths" of non-RPI). Once they start to matter, coaches will try to manipulate them, thus invalidating the value, but leaving us with some unfortunate smaller school teams getting 100+ point beat downs in an attempt to pad resumes
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You just cap the margin at 20
 
#60
#60
BasketVolKid said:
damn 75? for real? that loss vs alabama was turrible. who are we gonna face in our first game in the SECT?
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Appy State, Oakland, and College of Charleston aren't helping much either. They're around our neck like an anchor right now.
 
#62
#62
esarmstrong said:
Appy State, Oakland, and College of Charleston aren't helping much either. They're around our neck like an anchor right now.
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If we had won the bama game our rpi would already be high enough to get in with just one win in the sec tourny.
 
#63
#63
knowthevols said:
If we had won the bama game our rpi would already be high enough to get in with just one win in the sec tourny.
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Those game suck, but it made us better because they had to buy in.

The Bama and UGA games just absolutely suck. Two road wins we should have won.
 
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