Florida St. 10-2, 0-2
Huge win. Florida State is really good this year, and we just killed them. Traylor had an excellent game but Whittaker was incredibly dynamic, making huge differences in a lot of different areas, so I award the PoTG title to our PG.

RPI 1!, SOS 6, ranked 6th

check this out:

This is probably our peak. I just hope the valleys aren't much lower.

Maryland 12-1, 3-0
Not our prettiest game, but a conference win away from home. Whittaker is PoTG.

RPI 1, SOS 6, ranked 4th

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From:Nicholas Park To:Coach colorblind79 Subject:Final Grades Sent:06/29/2009 2:55AM

The final grades for this term have just been posted. Nice job - you've survived another term without any casualties :) Here are the final grades for everyone: o Student Name Yr. Term GPA Cumulative GPA o o Lee, John Sr. 3.3 3.1 o o Hodges, Abraham Sr. 3.6 3.5 o o Bane, Charles Fr. 3.5 3.5 o o Whittaker, Richard Sr. 3.4 3.5 o o Montero, Glenn Jr. 4.0 3.3 o o Holcomb, Michael Fr. 3.3 3.3 o o Traylor, Albert Jr. 3.0 3.2 o o Koualeski, Daniel Jr. 3.4 3.2 o o French, Jermaine Sr. 3.6 3.2 o o Rumfelt, Roger Sr. 3.4 3.3 o o Jones, Leon Jr. 3.3 3.4 o o McClure, Terry Fr. 3.6 3.6 o Nicholas Park Head Assistant Coach University of Maryland

N. Carolina St. 9-5, 2-2
This was another really good win. NC State is having a very fine year and it could've been a real challenge. I think homecourt advantage kept it from being close. Whittaker is PoTG.

RPI 1, SOS 5, ranked 4th

Game #	Opponent	Coach	Current Record	Current RPI	Current SOS
#1	at Kansas St.	9ball	11-2	21	108
#2	at Princeton	jreitz	0-13	220	11
#3	Georgia	testudo34	13-1	20	127
#4	Providence	mniven	7-7	151	78
#5	at Iowa	runninute	11-2	2	13
#6	Georgetown	wrightflyer	10-4	3	1
#7	Wyoming	gopokes24	8-6	29	15
#8	at Louisiana St.	rds_lsu	10-4	30	60
#9	Kentucky	oldresorter	7-6	96	46
#10	at New Hampshire	cyben5150	9-5	180	281

Maryland 14-1, 5-0
Wake Forest may not be at the top of the ACC this year, but they're good enough to knock off a Florida State, so I was concerned. I'm glad to walk away with a win away from home. Whittaker is PoTG, but I'm not pleased with him missing 4 FTs.

RPI 1, SOS 3, ranked 3rd

Maryland 14-2, 5-1
I thought I'd lose this game, so it's not any kind of surprise. Homecourt Advantage means a lot in the regular season. I guess Rumfelt wins PoTG for me.

RPI 1, SOS 4, ranked 3rd

Rails put up a theory a long time ago that I cited and have used to make determinations about my teams...here it is:

Off. Efficiency: PTS/[FGA+TO+(1/2*FTA)]. Championship teams will have about a 1.00 offensive efficiency and rebound about 40% of their offensive reb. opportunities. Average teams will be at about .85/33%.

for UMD, right now, the numbers are 1063/[829 + 193 + 124] = a 0.928 offensive efficiency rating.

Offensive rebounding opportunities are determined by deleting made FGs from attempted FGs. In my case that's 829-389 = 440. We rebounded 158 of those, meaning that we got about 36% of our offensive rebounding opportunities.

Here's the thing, though...we've played a very hard schedule, and we're more of a defensive team. Let's see what happens there.

Our opponents have scored 873 points, with 801 FGAs, 88 TOs, and 175 FTAs. 873/[801 + 88 + 87.5] = 873/976.5 = 0.894. Hmm...obviously we're more efficient than our opponents, but that's not as low as I'd like.

They made 343 FGs and rebounded 133 of the misses... 801-343 = 458. 133/458 = 29%. So that appears to be a strength of ours.

So the answer is that we have an edge in efficiency, but we are not apparently dominant, as one would expect from a championship team. I guess it all comes down to the actual game results, though. The NT in particular will be what matters.

Clemson 8-9, 1-6
I might do the efficiency test for each of my players. It's too late to just edit that in, but I can do it under here. Anyways, a solid win against a decent Sim team. PoTG is Rumfelt. Lee has an off game.

RPI 2 (I lost the top spot to Georgetown), SOS 4, ranked 4th

Virginia Tech 12-5, 4-3
Another good home win. VT's a sure NT team.

RPI 1, SOS 5, ranked 4th

Quote: Originally posted by colorblind79 on 7/02/2009Rails put up a theory a long time ago that I cited and have used to make determinations about my teams...here it is:Off. Efficiency: PTS/[FGA+TO+(1/2*FTA)]. Championship teams will have about a 1.00 offensive efficiency and rebound about 40% of their offensive reb. opportunities. Average teams will be at about .85/33%.for UMD, right now, the numbers are 1063/[829 + 193 + 124] = a 0.928 offensive efficiency rating.Offensive rebounding opportunities are determined by deleting made FGs from attempted FGs. In my case that's 829-389 = 440. We rebounded 158 of those, meaning that we got about 36% of our offensive rebounding opportunities.Here's the thing, though...we've played a very hard schedule, and we're more of a defensive team. Let's see what happens there.Our opponents have scored 873 points, with 801 FGAs, 88 TOs, and 175 FTAs. 873/[801 + 88 + 87.5] = 873/976.5 = 0.894. Hmm...obviously we're more efficient than our opponents, but that's not as low as I'd like.They made 343 FGs and rebounded 133 of the misses... 801-343 = 458. 133/458 = 29%. So that appears to be a strength of ours.So the answer is that we have an edge in efficiency, but we are not apparently dominant, as one would expect from a championship team. I guess it all comes down to the actual game results, though. The NT in particular will be what matters.

hey CB, just a fwiw here, but I think you forgot a component of the E.R., as the formula should be ER = PTS/[FGA+TO+(1/2*FTA)-ORB]. This may paint a different picture for you, and the number you get for ER here should be more comparable to those you see for real NCAA teams like on Ken Pomeroy's site (kenpom.com/stats.php).

And for Team ORB%, I think the appropriate formula for how HD annotates our stats page is:

Team ORB% = ORB/[(ORB + (Opp. Tot. REB - Opp. ORB)]

Anything close to 0.40 is really good.

Nice season so far for the Terps, GL

Thanks for the input, jdno. I'll have to see what that does to my calculations, when I have another slow day at work.

Maryland 17-2, 8-1

This looked like a game where my chances of losing were good, but we pulled it out. Leon Jones wins PoTG.

RPI 1, SOS 4, ranked 3rd

Maryland 18-2, 9-1
The refs helped me win this one.

RPI 1, SOS 5, ranked 3rd

Georgia Tech 7-14, 0-11
Not our prettiest game, either offensively or defensively; we were supposed to take this game by more than 30 points, but a win is a win, and better than losing. Just like last game, Whittaker is PoTG.

RPI 1, SOS 8, ranked 3rd

Wake Forest 12-9, 4-7
Lee has an off day, but we win easily. Whittaker is PoTG.

RPI 1, SOS 8, ranked 3rd

Maryland 21-2, 12-1
I was expecting to lose this game, to be honest. Our defense was great, though, and Traylor and Whittaker carried us on offense. PoTG: Traylor.

RPI 1, SOS 7, ranked 3rd

UNC 15-8, 9-4
We have, unfortunately, a long tradition of losing to UNC. I don't like dropping home games.

RPI 2, SOS 6, ranked 3rd