RPI Rankings???

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Texas__Horns

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Quick question: How the #$*& is BYU #2 in the RPI with their schedule while we are #7?

I'm not so worried about us at #7, just using it for comparison. We have played @ UNC, @ Kansas, UConn, Pitt, A&M twice, Mizzu, Illinois, MSU, etc., etc., etc.

BYU's biggest win was against Arizona at home almost 2 months ago (unless you want to count a home win against one of the most overrated teams in college basketball history in SD St.).

Can someone explain to me how BYU being in front of us is even possible?!?!?!
 
RPI is a joke this season. I'm not sure what algorithm they use to determine strength of schedule, but if it's going to rate BYU's schedule as more difficult than ours, they need to give the formula a second look.

Pomeroy has us at No.2. The Link.
 
Beating aggy twice by 20+ points and Nebraska beating them kills any RPI bump one would get from playing them.
 
There is definitely a disconnect ths year between what passes the eye test and what the number crunching says. Texas with BYU's schedule is undefeated, BYU with Texas' probably has 6 or 7 losses.

BYU has played a bunch of mid range teams and that has given them a strong RPI. Texas has some really good teams that are way up there but that is offset by the Coppin States and Navy's. For every win over aggy we have Tech and OU and so on.
 
It's simple. They look at all the games instead of just the good ones. Texas has played a lot of really good teams and a lot of truly terrible teams. BYU has played a whole lot of mediocre teams. Sagarin also has BYU with a tougher schedule (though a lower overall rank):
The Link

Texas has played 7 top 25 teams and 9 top 50 teams. BYU has played 3 top 25 teams and 5 top 50 teams - but their schedule is rated as 16th most difficult while ours is 24th.

The key difference is that Sagarin values the wins against the big teams more than RPI does. RPI, in turn, values the schedule strength more.
 
No doubt the formula is simple; it's just not a very good formula.

To the computers, there's a vast difference between the No.200-rated team and the No.300-rated team. To a ballclub like Texas, however, very little separates the two.
 
That's certainly true - it's also why no one has ever taken the RPI all that seriously. It's just a very simplistic measure. Even the committee only uses it as one component. Correlate RPI to the tournament seedings vs polls or Sagarin or other ranking systems, and you'll find less correlation to the RPI.
 
RPI is more of a "last ditch" effort to figure out who deserves the final spots into the tournament. As for seeding, that's more about geography and what the selection committee feels will make good matchups. Let's not freak out.
 
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