Gotta Love the RPI

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Wyoming loses to New Mexico and goes from 70 in RPI to 66 in RPI immediately after loss. Minnesota loses and goes from 23 to 29.

How can you lose to a team in your conference and increase your RPI?
 
Wyoming who is 5-13 in the powerful mountain west conference is ahead of Iowa in RPI. Anyone else see anything wrong with this?
 
We are 76 in the RPI. It will likely go down when we beat NW too. This is nothing new...you play and beat weak teams your RPI goes down due to the SOS component. We will get probably a 15 spot boost if we beat MSU on a neutral court though.
 
And of course, ASU is #85 and they are closer to being in than we are according to Lunardi.

That sham of a metric needs to go and needs to go now.
 
sioux34 said:
Wyoming who is 5-13 in the powerful mountain west conference is ahead of Iowa in RPI. Anyone else see anything wrong with this?
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This is downright amazing. I guess they didn't play 5 300+ teams so they can suck all year and still have a good RPI. The more I am learning about the RPI, the more mind blowingly stupid it is.
 
It just goes to show how some of the smaller conferences, with the Mountain West being the leader, are manipulating the RPI system in their scheduling. If you take any of the MWC teams, or even Minnesota for that matter, there are no differences between their schedule than Iowas with regards to teams that they should beat, teams that they will probably get beat by, and teams that are a toss up.
 
dirtwrap said:
Iowa went from 76 with .5563 to 76 with .5563 after the ISU win. ISU went from 47 to 40.
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So Iowa was 72 or something earlier in the week, and dropped to 76 based on what our opponents did. But now our opponents go up in the RPI and it has no impact on our RPI whatsoever? Is that what I'm hearing?

So WTF. Is there some line of code that does the RPI calculations that says "If team = Iowa, then do this, else do that"?
 
DexterMorgan said:
How about Minnesota being in the top 30 after losing 3 in a row and 7/10
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greatest evidence to date that RPI is junk. whatever happened to results in last ten? next year Iowa needs to win all its non con games, start 7-2 in the big ten and then just rest all the starters for NCAA run
 
You know there's something wrong with a system that say you can go to Cameron Indoor and get throttled by Duke by 50 points and have a higher RPI than a team that plays Howard at home and wins by 50.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
So Iowa was 72 or something earlier in the week, and dropped to 76 based on what our opponents did. But now our opponents go up in the RPI and it has no impact on our RPI whatsoever? Is that what I'm hearing?

So WTF. Is there some line of code that does the RPI calculations that says "If team = Iowa, then do this, else do that"?
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I dont get it. I'm going to stop trying now.
 
And how do all teams from the mountain west have such good RPI's? The best way to build an RPI must be to be an average team that beats a bunch of other average teams.
 
PCHawk said:
And how do all teams from the mountain west have such good RPI's? The best way to build an RPI must be to be an average team that beats a bunch of other average teams.
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They play the RPI game.

Win all home games. Schedule winnable road games/neutral out of conference.

As long as you can protect the home floor, go out in the non-conference and grab some neutral/road gimmies and you can inflate RPI pretty quickly.
 
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