NCAA Tourney Quality Win Changes

99topdawg

99topdawg

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Off-season, but I found this interesting. The NCAA met today and came up with this change to redefine a quality win, which I think is a good one.

The committee previously defined a quality win as any victory over a team with an RPI rank from 1 to 50. Now, it has changed the definition of quality win to mean one that comes at home against an opponent ranked 1 to 30, at a neutral site over a foe ranked 1 to 50 or on the road versus a team ranked 1 to 75.
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I don't follow RPI closely. Do you know if they use the RPI at the time the game was played or if they use the RPI at the end of the season to determine a quality win?
 
rschneider said:
Not going to look it up, but would that have added some quality wins last year?
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I don't think so. Iowa barely won any road games last year. They won at Wisconsin and Maryland but both teams were within the RPI top 50 already so it wouldn't have changed anything.

If anything they might have lost a quality win when they beat Michigan at home.
 
Since RPI is a ridiculous measure anyway, this doesn't improve much IMO. All this does is gives mid majors more of a chance at "quality" wins but knocking off #70 on the road in November. Great jog beating CSU in November. How about trying to play at The Barn in Feb after playing PU at home 3 days before. I'm sorry, it's not the same thing at all.

The committee needs to move to real metrics like KenPom.
 
The RPI is a bad metric to use for this. Too many other metrics (Sagarin, KenPom, etc ..) would be a better alternative.

I like the idea, IMHO the RPI is a bad starting point.

Just my 2¢ .. .. GO HAWKS!!!
 
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