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Re: RPI is Out

2018-08-23T08:07:18-06:00

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... system-rpi

We now know what the NCAA is replacing RPI with: NET or NCAA Evaluation Tool.
NET will take into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, offensive and defensive efficiency and the quality of wins and losses.

The system won't give more weight to games late in the season, instead omitting game date and order from the data. It also caps the winning margin at 10 points to discourage teams from running up the score.

The quadrant system used on last season's NCAA tournament team sheets is still in place, with NET replacing RPI as the sorting tool. Team sheets will also still include other metrics, including ESPN's BPI and Strength of Record, as well as those from Kevin Pauga, Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin

There are actually a lot of things in there that do not favor the so-called P5.

Namely:
Late season games don't count more than the early ones. That favors the NON-power conference teams who schedule well in the non-conference. When a non-power conference team wins against a good non-conference opponent in November or December it makes it impossible to write off or discount those games or find excuses for it, as was the tendency to do before.

Emphasis on road games clearly favors teams that have to go on the road to face good competition, like us this year.

10 point cap on margin of error probably favors more the non-power teams as a powerhouse crushing a weakling at home won't make up for the hit to their non-conference SOS. The committee was doing it already, but a major conference team that is mediocre in their own league and plays no one good in the non-conference is going to find themselves out of the field.

Statistics: Posted by BlueK — Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:07 am

Re: RPI is Out

2018-08-22T11:50:37-06:00

I'm always leery of an undefined "strength of schedule" metric.

Statistics: Posted by snoscythe — Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:50 am

Re: RPI is Out

2018-08-22T11:03:33-06:00

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... system-rpi

We now know what the NCAA is replacing RPI with: NET or NCAA Evaluation Tool.

NET will take into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, offensive and defensive efficiency and the quality of wins and losses.

The system won't give more weight to games late in the season, instead omitting game date and order from the data. It also caps the winning margin at 10 points to discourage teams from running up the score.

The quadrant system used on last season's NCAA tournament team sheets is still in place, with NET replacing RPI as the sorting tool. Team sheets will also still include other metrics, including ESPN's BPI and Strength of Record, as well as those from Kevin Pauga, Ken Pomeroy and Jeff Sagarin

Statistics: Posted by byufan4ever — Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:03 am

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-24T21:58:34-06:00

Will be interesting to see how they rank the teams.

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:58 pm

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-21T08:10:07-06:00

Could this potentially push some schools to play in the Marriott center since a win there would most likely be a pretty good resume builder with the new format?

Only if we're in the top 75...

Statistics: Posted by byufan4ever — Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:10 am

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-21T00:19:25-06:00

Could this potentially push some schools to play in the Marriott center since a win there would most likely be a pretty good resume builder with the new format?

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:19 am

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-20T06:20:12-06:00

You guys are probably right.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:20 am

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-20T00:57:42-06:00

This sounds like some tea-leaf process they can use to basically pick who they want. The committee was starting to feel some heat from excluding teams that based on RPI should have been in the tournament and including teams that shouldn't. This sounds like a way to fix "the problem," not the problem of getting selections wrong but " the problem" of their selections getting criticized.

Statistics: Posted by Gunk — Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:57 am

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-19T15:07:29-06:00

Does this skew the entire process towards the P5 conferences?

Wondering the same thing.

Statistics: Posted by StatsCougar — Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:07 pm

Re: RPI is Out

2017-07-19T10:30:10-06:00

Does this skew the entire process towards the P5 conferences?

Statistics: Posted by dsmith1212 — Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:30 am