Posted by MikeT23 on 2/21/2017 7:35:00 AM (view original):
BTW, after getting **** from benis/trentonjoe about scheduling, my SOS is 75. Not great but certainly level appropriate for my team.

Why are you mad about Benis/TrentonJoe giving you clear advice? I would listen to both of them it turns out that the basic understanding of division 1 is the same as d2 and d3 source chapel. If Chapel didn't want to give me the right advice and what I wanted to hear. I would've chosen Benis or TrentonJoe as one of my mentors. Chapel even mention to me that I don't need a mentor for division 1.

Posted by Benis on 2/21/2017 4:02:00 PM (view original):
You could have a top 50 RPI and a great shot at the NT if you scheduled those non-conf games on the road.

n00b mistake. I didn't think my team would be very good. We went thru this.

#4 conference

Posted by mumcoach on 2/6/2017 8:34:00 PM (view original):
You join our conference based on Mike running his mouth. You remove yourself from our conference based on Mike claiming we were all leaving. Mike acts, you react. Mike pulls the strings, your arms and legs do a little dance. It was entertaining to watch. Maybe a spot will open up after this season and you can jump in to battle for 3rd or 4th place on a yearly basis.

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#3 D3 in Smith!!!

Posted by Benis on 2/21/2017 4:02:00 PM (view original):
You could have a top 50 RPI and a great shot at the NT if you scheduled those non-conf games on the road.

SOS now 46 and playing a top 25 team tonight. How much harder should I have made my schedule?

Again, your SOS is fine. You should have just scheduled your non conf games on the road. It would have helped with your RPI quite a bit and put you in a better position for a postseason berth. What are you on the projection report right now?

Let's do some math.

You went 6-4 in your non conf. This is a win% of 60%. However, with the homecourt penalty, your win% is actually 39% for the RPI calculation. If you had played all those games on the road and won the same number, your win% would be 77%.

The home games effectively your Win Percentage portion of the RPI calculation by 0.386 (0.778 - 0.391).
25% of 0.386 is 0.096. This is how much higher the RPI would have been with road games instead of home games at the start of the conference season.

It's a small sample size(3 H/A games) but it looks like my HC advantage is 3-5 pts. I won 4 of those 6 by 1, 4, 5, 7. So how many of those 6 wins are losses away?

You can't just take margin of victory from a couple games and say that comes from HCA. Way too many variables.

I'm not sure of the exact numbers but from what I read in the past it is pretty minimal at D3. With an A+ at D1 it might give 2-3 pts.

Your HCA is a D rating. Id say you get at most 1 pt.

Maybe TJ knows more on the subject.

No, I was using the point spread in my 3 H/A match-ups so far this season. 3 point dog at home, 10 pt dog on the road, etc, etc.

Of course, I know teams get better/worse as the season progresses so that's why I said 3-5.

Ah gotcha.

The point spread is pretty wacky and I have no clue what really goes in to it.

But anyway, I still think 3-5pts is way to high for a D Homecourt.

I felt it was high too but I was trying to use something that might give an indication. Someone mentioned tracking it earlier in some thread and 3-5 was pretty consistent last season(although the spread was wildly inaccurate as often as it was close when it came to the outcome).

SOS is now 29. Yeah, I should have scheduled differently.

Yeah you should have scheduled those non conf games on the road.

SOS v RPI?