It's Time

[blubberhawk]

To do away with the RPI, SOS, BPI, FBI and every other worthless piece of computer crap used by the NCAA selection committee.

It is obvious these numbers are often so far out of whack with reality that they are rendered useless:

Mountain West, #1 RPI conference? That alone is cause for the entire RPI process to be eliminated. I have watched New Mexico a few times this year. They would have been bottom half of the BIG, bottom half of the Big East, Bottom half of the Big 12 and probably a few other leagues. For the life of me, I can't figure out how any BB expert looked at that team and could see anything close to a Final 4 team.

SOS is almost more meaningless than the RPI because it does not factor in the actual strength of the team played, only that team's record. (playing a 25-7 Akron team at home helps your SOS while playing a lower level ACC team on the road hurts it. Which is the tougher game??

Throw away the frickin computers and watch some games. Look at who the teams beat, who they lost to and where, and use the old eye ball test. Instead of analyzing meaningless computer numbers, analyze game tape..

 

[uihawk82]

To do away with the RPI, SOS, BPI, FBI and every other worthless piece of computer crap used by the NCAA selection committee.

SOS is almost more meaningless than the RPI because it does not factor in the actual strength of the team played, only that team's record. (playing a 25-7 Akron team at home helps your SOS while playing a lower level ACC team on the road hurts it. Which is the tougher game??

Throw away the frickin computers and watch some games. Look at who the teams beat, who they lost to and where, and use the old eye ball test. Instead of analyzing meaningless computer numbers, analyze game tape..

Great post and idea. Very Novel. And how about looking at actual victory margin and venue, home, road or neutral. How about giving January to March conference play more weight. We all know playing 18 conf games in a power 4 or 6 conference totally outweighs november and december.

For example, when purdue beat wisky at madison about 3 weeks ago that got my attention as a 7-8 place team doing that shows how tough the B1G is. There is no doubt that Iowa and Purdue would be better than about 20 teams that made the dance.