i know its not going to happen, but with 2 days till the CT, we've got 11 teams with RPI's under 56. I'm guessing eight, but you can always dream, eh?

If joey who has been slacking all season, get it together and wins the conference tournament, then you can have all 12 teams in......how about that?

More amazingly, these are D-3 schools, not a high tier D-1 conference.

many coaches have disagreed with a theory I have, the theory states over the long haul, RPI tends to move toward SOS such that rpi="sos," when taken in the context of an entire conference,

your example would be evidence of such, as overall win / loss records are not so hot

some top coaches get themselves in conference like this, and schedule themselves a cupcake non conf, then use their conf mate's SOS's to drop theirs to the 20-50 range by season's end. As long as their conf mates continue to do the heavy lifting, they get a free ride - often the conf slowly starts ALL scheduling easier, and quickly a conf can go from getting 8 in the dance to 2 or 3.

NYU is 1-9 vs. Teams in the RPI Top 45. Not sure what math program calculates that out to a 26 RPI.

The RPI formula is what it is, and is from real life.


There is a reason its not used by the real life selection committee save as something of a tiebreaker.

Quote: Originally Posted By oldresorter on 12/31/2009
many coaches have disagreed with a theory I have, the theory states over the long haul, RPI tends to move toward SOS such that rpi="sos," when taken in the context of an entire conference,

your example would be evidence of such, as overall win / loss records are not so hot

some top coaches get themselves in conference like this, and schedule themselves a cupcake non conf, then use their conf mate's SOS's to drop theirs to the 20-50 range by season's end. As long as their conf mates continue to do the heavy lifting, they get a free ride - often the conf slowly starts ALL scheduling easier, and quickly a conf can go from getting 8 in the dance to 2 or 3.

xactly I have seen this b4

And for the record we dominated the upstate in the gangbang I believe you guys only beat us once? But either way still a great accomplishment marko

Quote: Originally Posted By thewizard2 on 12/31/2009If joey who has been slacking all season, get it together and wins the conference tournament, then you can have all 14 teams in......how about that?

More amazingly, these are D-3 schools, not a high tier D-1 conference

That would be pretty crazy if they got 14 in. Especially since there are only 12 teams.

Quote: Originally posted by oldresorter on 12/31/2009many coaches have disagreed with a theory I have, the theory states over the long haul, RPI tends to move toward SOS such that rpi="sos," when taken in the context of an entire conference, your example would be evidence of such, as overall win / loss records are not so hotsome top coaches get themselves in conference like this, and schedule themselves a cupcake non conf, then use their conf mate's SOS's to drop theirs to the 20-50 range by season's end.  As long as their conf mates continue to do the heavy lifting, they get a free ride - often the conf slowly starts ALL scheduling easier, and quickly a conf can go from getting 8 in the dance to 2 or 3.

I think you have this exactly backwards.

Quote: Originally Posted By lostmyth2 on 12/31/2009

Quote: Originally posted by oldresorter on 12/31/2009
many coaches have disagreed with a theory I have, the theory states over the long haul, RPI tends to move toward SOS such that rpi="sos," when taken in the context of an entire conference,

your example would be evidence of such, as overall win / loss records are not so hot

some top coaches get themselves in conference like this, and schedule themselves a cupcake non conf, then use their conf mate's SOS's to drop theirs to the 20-50 range by season's end. As long as their conf mates continue to do the heavy lifting, they get a free ride - often the conf slowly starts ALL scheduling easier, and quickly a conf can go from getting 8 in the dance to 2 or 3.

I think you have this exactly backwards

Agree with lm2.

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If every team in your conference was 10-0 in OOC, that would be some pretty good inconf sos... and inconference is a majority of your games... which is a majority of your rpi calculation.

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