Depaul drops #17 Nova 84-76...
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:12 pm
That ought to help out the old RPI!
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Great minds think alike I guess.leshardin wrote:I guess we were thinking the same thing
Can someone explain why?USCrebel wrote:It has actually dropped to 18.
The RPI is 50% our record, 25% the average of our opponent's record, and 25% the record of our opponent's opponents. So, even though DePaul beat Villanova, their opponents average record was 6-4.oxpatchreb wrote:Can someone explain why?USCrebel wrote:It has actually dropped to 18.
Okay, the math makes sense. And I do understand how we arrive at the RPI. But why would it drop when a team we've beaten, beats another very good team? It seems as though it should go UP when a team we've beaten, beats another team with a good record.USCrebel wrote:The RPI is 50% our record, 25% the average of our opponent's record, and 25% the record of our opponent's opponents. So, even though DePaul beat Villanova, their opponents average record was 6-4.oxpatchreb wrote:Can someone explain why?USCrebel wrote:It has actually dropped to 18.
1.000(.50)+600(.25)+.41(.25)
.500+.150+.100=.750
And that is just for DePaul. Other teams we played are even worse. If we sweep at home and get half our road games we should end up with about a 26 or 27th place RPI.
HAHAHAHA!!!! My head is also now mush...... but I asked for it!!!Rebchuck18 wrote:Maybe it is a kind of circular reasoning. Because DePaul beats Villanova, Villanova's RPI goes down, which makes DePaul's schedule in fact weaker, which brings down the value of our victory over DePaul even though DePaul beat a higher ranked team than us. Maybe if Depaul lost to Villanova, their strength of schedule would increase which might make our victory over DePaul stronger, so perhaps we would have been better off if DePaul had actually lost the game....Okay now I have a headache. I better go get some of that Tylenol I brought back from Canada with the codeine in it
Now I know who develops the RPI. It MUST be the Treasury Department because this sounds an awful lot like the Income Tax Code and Regulations! 8)
Remember is the average W/L of EVERY team we play and EVERY team they play. Things begin to stabilize once conference play begins because the pool of teams are more easily compared.oxpatchreb wrote:Okay, the math makes sense. And I do understand how we arrive at the RPI. But why would it drop when a team we've beaten, beats another very good team? It seems as though it should go UP when a team we've beaten, beats another team with a good record.USCrebel wrote:The RPI is 50% our record, 25% the average of our opponent's record, and 25% the record of our opponent's opponents. So, even though DePaul beat Villanova, their opponents average record was 6-4.oxpatchreb wrote: Can someone explain why?
1.000(.50)+600(.25)+.41(.25)
.500+.150+.100=.750
And that is just for DePaul. Other teams we played are even worse. If we sweep at home and get half our road games we should end up with about a 26 or 27th place RPI.
P.S. I know that took alot of stat investigation, thanks!!!