We are now up to #50 in his ratings.

Our RPI is now #93

Our Adjusted Defensive Efficiency is now at #15, up from the 30's last week.

It now predicts us to lose at Pacific by 1 and finish with a 9-7 record in conference play.

Sagarin has us at #45

good info seven.

Our RPI is 94 but who counting

#93

http://kenpom.com/rpi.php

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Why are the RPI ratings different on other pages?
I don’t know and I don’t care. For most of the 2005 season, every site (including this one) that posted the RPI differed significantly from what the NCAA was using. That saga is documented on this page. As of August 2005, ESPN continues to carry bogus RPI data for last season. I am confident what I post is correct, subject to game data errors which are rare but do occur. Now that home/road wins matter, small errors can occur if the NCAA considers certain games neutral that I do not.

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Contrary to popular belief, the RPI is a meaningless calculation, even if there was a standard RPI -- which there isn't. I keep hearing about how the NCAA calculates it, but its never been release (at least not to my knowledge), and the psuedo-RPIs all over the internet don't come close to matching what teams get in or even how they are seeded come March.

According to BoydsWorld, it may be a factor in baseball, but not in basketball. At least not the last 5 years that I've studied tournament picks and seedings very carefully.

This is straight from the NCAA's website

Basically says RPI is one of many things the selection committee looks at.

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The Rating Percentage Index (RPI) was created in 1981 to provide supplemental data for the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee in its evaluation of teams for at-large selection and seeding of the championship bracket.

The RPI is intended to be used as one of many resources used by the committee in the selection, seeding and bracketing process. It never should be considered anything but an additional evaluation tool. No computer program that is based on pure numbers can take into account subjective concepts, e.g., how well a team is playing down the stretch, what the loss or return of a top player means to a team, or how emotional a specific conference game may be.

Several independent elements are combined to produce the RPI. These elements are a part of the statistical information that can be utilized by each member in an objective manner.

Each committee member independently evaluates a vast pool of information available during the process to develop individual preferences. It is these subjective opinions--developed after many hours of personal observations, discussion with coaches, directors of athletics and commissioners, and review and comparison of objective data--that dictate how each individual ultimately will vote on all issues related to the selection, seeding and bracketing process.

While the various elements of the RPI are important in the evaluation process, the tournament bracket each year is based on the subjectivity of each individual committee member to select the best at-large teams available and to create a nationally balanced championship.

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Seven Costanza well the CBS sportsline web site has us at 94. To bad there isn't one site that the NCAA uses that normal people would have access to check out


http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/polls/rpi/index2