Do we play this Tue night? ?
As is every other metric that "committees" take into account when deciding post season play as they should be questioned and be transparent. CFP, MBB, and Baseballs RPI.BoerneGator said:
Game was cancelled due to negative RPI implications (even with a W).
RPI "problems" have manifested this season to the extent it's credibility is called into question.
Agree. When you win a game and lose RPI slots something is wrong.BoerneGator said:
Game was cancelled due to negative RPI implications (even with a W).
RPI "problems" have manifested this season to the extent it's credibility is called into question.
Bad Poster said:
Why is everyone all of a sudden up in fits about RPI?! This **** has been going on for years? We just expect the committee to say "aw yeah, this years different lets seed a different way"? No.
Bunk Moreland said:Bad Poster said:
Why is everyone all of a sudden up in fits about RPI?! This **** has been going on for years? We just expect the committee to say "aw yeah, this years different lets seed a different way"? No.
who's up in fits about it?
Exactly, it's not like even a win over us would help them make their tournament. They need to win their conference tournament and that is all they care about right now.TexAg1987 said:
Coach talked about it again on the radio today.
It was a MUTUAL decision between us and IW.
They didn't want to play, and we didn't want to play. They are coming up on their conference tourney and that was more important than the game.
Coach said that if they needed the game, we would have played.
He said he hopes that in the future he will have the schedule set in such a way that it is open and we can schedule a makeup game or an RPI boosting game there late in the season if we need/want to.
Bad Poster said:
Why is everyone all of a sudden up in fits about RPI?! This **** has been going on for years? We just expect the committee to say "aw yeah, this years different lets seed a different way"? No.
You are not a season ticket holder or you would understand.Bad Poster said:
Why is everyone all of a sudden up in fits about RPI?! This **** has been going on for years? We just expect the committee to say "aw yeah, this years different lets seed a different way"? No.
Bad Poster said:
Why is everyone all of a sudden up in fits about RPI?! This **** has been going on for years? We just expect the committee to say "aw yeah, this years different lets seed a different way"? No.
Could this be the new normal? Seems like so many programs are now aggressively scheduling to trick out their RPI. Could this be distorting RPI as a measuring tool?RED AG 98 said:
In most seasons, the SEC doesn't have much to worry about with respect to RPI. The best SEC teams, both in record and in the rankings are also high in the RPI ranking. And further there are usually a number of middle of the pack SEC teams with high RPI because the conference is just do danged tough.
This year is just weirder than normal in that RPI isn't correlating as well to the actual records and rankings, not just for the SEC but especially in the SEC. Of course there are outliers every year, but it seems there are far more anomalies this year than typical at this point in the year with only 3 or 4 games remaining.
People are only fixated on RPI because the selection committee has stated this is a key metric in determining postseason seeds, hosts and who makes the tourney.
GnMountain said:
Do we play this Tue night? ?
Hard to put Auburn as a national seed when they are 3rd in the division and 4th overall in conference.AggieKeith15 said:
I think the difference this season is that there exists major flaws in the resumes of the top ranked RPI teams.
They have bad number of series losses (Vandy, Auburn with 4 each), mediocre conference records (Vandy 14-13, DBU 11-7 in Missouri Valley, Georgia 14-13), poor conference standings (Vanderbilt 5th, Auburn 4th, Georgia 6th, DBU 2nd in Missouri Valley), and bad Q1 results (Vandy 9-13, Auburn 11-12, Georgia 12-13, Georgia Southern 6-10, Maryland 3-4).
Based on the above considerations, the only National Seeds out of the top 10 appear to be:
Tennessee
Oregon State
Virginia Tech
Miami
Maryland
Auburn (Bubble)
The remaining two national seeds have to come from teams currenly ranked 11 to 19, plus Arkansas depending on last week's results as they sit at at 29 (they will likely need to sweep).
The real contenders for the last two spots:
Louisville
Oklahoma State
Notre Dame (Nearly a lock)
Texas A&M
Arkansas
Georgia Southern has a series this weekend with UTA (ranked 255), they are not finishing top 10 and are out of National Seed considerations.
Looking at Q1 records again, I'm not sure Auburn is a bubble team as they have a losing record (11-12) against top 50 teams. And given Kentucky is sitting at 60 I think they have some work to do in the conference tournament to host as a National Seed. We'll see.
dcaggie04 said:
If we had not lost at home to Santa Clara and not lost to a bad Wichita State team, our RPI right now would be in the low teens. Nobody would be complaining about the atPI then. And we would have also probably played UIW yesterday. Because it would not have hurt our RPI that much with a win.