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RPI is Out
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:31 am
by byufan4ever
BYU SN mentioned yesterday that starting in the 2018-19 season that RPI will no longer be used in the NCAA tournament selection committee. Instead they will look at:
Home wins vs top 30 (BYU had zero last season)
Neutral site wins vs top 50 (BYU had zero)
Road wins vs top 75 (BYU had one - Gonzaga)
And to define top 30/50/75 they are looking at some other sort of composite ranking besides RPI. Are you guys happy or sad to say RIP to RPI?
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:30 am
by dsmith1212
Does this skew the entire process towards the P5 conferences?
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:07 pm
by StatsCougar
dsmith1212 wrote:Does this skew the entire process towards the P5 conferences?
Wondering the same thing.
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:57 am
by Gunk
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.
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:20 am
by scott715
You guys are probably right.
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:19 am
by BroncoBot
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?
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:10 am
by byufan4ever
BroncoBot wrote: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...
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:58 pm
by BroncoBot
Will be interesting to see how they rank the teams.
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:03 am
by byufan4ever
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
Re: RPI is Out
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:50 am
by snoscythe
I'm always leery of an undefined "strength of schedule" metric.