Despite the cancellation, Nolan Warren still posted the possible impact of the UIW game on our RPI.
If we win, setting aside all other results, our RPI would drop 7 "points". That's the equivalent of 7/10,000ths or 0.07%.
That's essentially a rounding error in the RPI. Boyd's World doesn't even report RPIs to that many decimal points. The impact of the win would be to drop from 19th to 20th, as Wake Forest would move ahead of us by 1 "point."
To put the impact of the UIW game on our RPI in perspective, if Mississippi State beats North Alabama at home tonight, our RPI will increase by 3 points and we would move back ahead of Wake Forest, setting everything else aside.
Not to say the impact is exactly 0, not to say we shouldn't have cancelled the game (both teams both have other good reasons not to play it), but the hubbub about RPI it has caused seems disproportionate to what would have actually happened.
Carry on.
If we win, setting aside all other results, our RPI would drop 7 "points". That's the equivalent of 7/10,000ths or 0.07%.
That's essentially a rounding error in the RPI. Boyd's World doesn't even report RPIs to that many decimal points. The impact of the win would be to drop from 19th to 20th, as Wake Forest would move ahead of us by 1 "point."
To put the impact of the UIW game on our RPI in perspective, if Mississippi State beats North Alabama at home tonight, our RPI will increase by 3 points and we would move back ahead of Wake Forest, setting everything else aside.
Not to say the impact is exactly 0, not to say we shouldn't have cancelled the game (both teams both have other good reasons not to play it), but the hubbub about RPI it has caused seems disproportionate to what would have actually happened.
Carry on.