Our RPI plummeted after last night...
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OEMDawg said:
Actually, look for most SEC schools to raise their RPI collectively as the season progresses. From this point forward for the most part, SEC teams will face only SEC teams.
The biggest factor you're going to get from the teams you play is their overall record. For SEC teams, that's above .500 as a whole, so the league will raise its RPI collectively and teams will individually in league play.
The collective overall record of the SEC to this point is 118-45. Of course the result of all SEC games is going to be .500 for the league's overall record, so factoring in some portion of that 118-45 as 50% of your change in RPI from this point forward will raise the league and league team RPIs.
or did circle you talk in circles and circle talk around to another talk of circles thus circling your talk once more (circularly)?
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a few paragraphs of nonsense with an Ole Miss slant with an "actually" and "exactly" thrown in for good measure.
markymark said:
I know that may have gone over your head, so I'll give you the more detailed explanation.
50% of your RPI comes from your opponents's winning percentage. The combined winning percentage of SEC teams is 118-45 right now. You're going to factor in some portion of that high winning percentage every time you play an SEC team.
It doesn't matter that the RPIs of some of the teams are low, the record of the team you are playing is the most important factor. Playing an 8-2 team that's 100 in the RPI gives you the same boost to that 50% that playing an 8-2 team that's No. 15 in the RPI.
For some reason, people get the idea that it's all based on playing teams ranked highly in the RPI at the time. It's a mathematical formula so it doesn't work that way.
A lot of people think that if your conference's RPI is the 8th best conference RPI after non-conference play, it'll be the 8th best after conference play as well, because the league teams have effectively gone .500 against themselves for 3 months. That's not the case. If you play in a conference that has a high winning percentage coming into conference play, your conference RPI will pass the RPI of other conferences that had a lower winning percentage as a league, even if they had a higher RPI before conference play. Make any sense?