Firehawk11
Well-Known Member
Strength of Schedule???????????
I am having two serious issues with RPI right now. Strength of schedule being one of them. In doing some calculations, our cupcakes with RPI's well over 300 seemed to have killed any post season hopes at this point. Upon doing some calculations, if those three teams had RPI's from 220-240 instead of a hundred higher our SOS would be in the neighborhood of 40. This was based on adding all RPI's of opponents and dividing by the number of games. The difference between our weak sos and having a sos of 25 was a mere 4.8 rpi rankings. Too much weight given to strength of schedule in RPI ranking, period. In all actuality there seems to be very small differences in schedules between the BIG schools.
Can someone please educate me on why our rpi is almost 40 pts higher on kenpom. There must be some disparity on the amount of weight the computer is giving SOS.
I know people who are in charge of this kindof stuff like to say the equations do not lie. And to some extent I agree with that. However, it is based on people placing a value on a team at the start of the year. In that value they believed Iowa was not going to be a very good team this year. I agree at times we were not good this year. I just feel we started the year with a very low RPI. It is very tough to make up the ground we needed to. I know win the five games we should have, but we also won five maybe we shouldn't have so I think that all plays out. Any thoughts maybe I am way off on all this.
I am having two serious issues with RPI right now. Strength of schedule being one of them. In doing some calculations, our cupcakes with RPI's well over 300 seemed to have killed any post season hopes at this point. Upon doing some calculations, if those three teams had RPI's from 220-240 instead of a hundred higher our SOS would be in the neighborhood of 40. This was based on adding all RPI's of opponents and dividing by the number of games. The difference between our weak sos and having a sos of 25 was a mere 4.8 rpi rankings. Too much weight given to strength of schedule in RPI ranking, period. In all actuality there seems to be very small differences in schedules between the BIG schools.
Can someone please educate me on why our rpi is almost 40 pts higher on kenpom. There must be some disparity on the amount of weight the computer is giving SOS.
I know people who are in charge of this kindof stuff like to say the equations do not lie. And to some extent I agree with that. However, it is based on people placing a value on a team at the start of the year. In that value they believed Iowa was not going to be a very good team this year. I agree at times we were not good this year. I just feel we started the year with a very low RPI. It is very tough to make up the ground we needed to. I know win the five games we should have, but we also won five maybe we shouldn't have so I think that all plays out. Any thoughts maybe I am way off on all this.
