Rpi, Crunching Numbers..


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http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/sportsstory/bubble27.html



...."Strength of schedule means a lot to me, and how a team plays over the last 10 games does, too," she said. "When you do your homework you find out quickly that a team may have a certain reputation, but that's not really indicative of how it's playing.".............................................................................................A strength of the RPI is its lack of sophistication. Anyone with a computer and time on his/her hands can calculate a team's RPI by taking its winning percentage (25 percent), its opponents' winning percentage (50 percent) and its opponents' opponents' winning percentage (25 percent), Palm said.
 
At this time the play in game would have Siena College(#221)-vs-Winthrop(#223).

The only team in the SWAC with a better RPI is Alcorn at #204.
 



I was under the impression that the play-in game was done by strength (or lack thereof) of your conference, not RPI.
 
Here's the breakdown Jag79 and purplerush is right. The SWAC will not have to be in the play-in ONLY if Alcorn wins the tourney. Indirectly your conference rating plays a huge role because members of a weak conference have weak RPIs. The SWAC got lucky this year because <b> 6th</b> place Siena of the Metro-Alantic won their tournament and are now headed to the play-in. If any of the the top four in the Metro would have won their tournament, our champion is headed to the play-in. Is this luck or what??
The rule is below...

There will be a play-in game this year, making it a 65-team tournament. The two lowest-seeded teams will square off in Dayton on the Tuesday before the first round for the right to get creamed by a #1 seed. The winner of the play-in game will probably be sent to a Friday-Sunday site.
The process for picking those two teams is the same as it is for seeding the entire tournament. Whichever teams are considered #64 and #65 in the committee's opinion will be matched up. As it is with the rest of the bracket, conference ratings are not relevant.
 
They interviewed a member of the selection committee and he said that it is done by a team's RPI not the conference RPI.

Check out how far a head of the rest of the MEAC Hampton is.

It is a long shot,but AAMU could climb up to around 215 or 210 if they win out.Everyone else will be head to Dayton for sure.
 
I think they are using a sliding scale on these sites. If we have a higher RPI rating than Winthrop and Siena, why are they putting us in the play-in game? Something isn't right.
I hope this comes back to bite them in their arse!!
 
Originally posted by purplerush
They interviewed a member of the selection committee and he said that it is done by a team's RPI not the conference RPI.

Check out how far a head of the rest of the MEAC Hampton is.
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Hampton is headed for a 15th seed. This shows you the system can work(well.. somewhat) in our favor if we schedule the right teams. The SWAC women situation is similar to the MEAC men. SU women have a RPI of 86(15th seed) and the next SWAC team ASU is ranked 146.

If other SWAC women or MEAC men had better out of conference records, these two teams could easily have a 13th seed. When it comes to out of conference scheduling, we should look at the Bottom 10 conferences instead of the Top 5 we schedule now.
 
JV,

I've been saying that for a couple of years now. If we had a better out of conference schedule and stopped playing 'so-and-so community college', we'd be a much higher seed. The committees will always reward a school for playing UP instead of down.


SU women definitely deserve an at-large if they don't win the tourney, but it won't happen. Not because they aren't a strong team, but because we don't have a strong conference. The cmte. wouldn't be able to justify it.
 
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