A team can manufacture a high RPI without hardly playing and beating any good

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Feb 23, 2015
9:34:16am

byubyu

A team can manufacture a high RPI without hardly playing and beating any good

teams.

For example, Utah State 2004. Had an RPI in the 40s but only went 2-3 versus the RPI Top 100.

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Originally posted on Feb 23, 2015 at 9:34:16am

Message modified by byubyu on Feb 23, 2015 at 9:35:50am

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byubyu

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Interesting results for BYU with Pomery, Sagarin, and ESPN BPI compared to RPI.

swishh_15

2/23/15 9:18am

someone correct me, but i think the committee is using rpi less and less.

2/23/15 9:19am

I assume they're smart enough to look at all of them and give them the proper

benny1982

2/23/15 9:20am

I was under the impression that they really only used RPI to evaluate your SOS

jrob30

2/23/15 9:23am

Which makes no sense at all.

2/23/15 9:27am

They've said for years a team's RPI doesn't matter nearly as much as

byubyu

2/23/15 9:25am

Yes but they're still using the RPI of the team you beat.

swishh_15

2/23/15 9:26am

It's only one metric they use. The reason it gets talked about so much is

byubyu

2/23/15 9:35am

let me think about that...i'm not sure that makes sense.

2/23/15 9:26am

A team can manufacture a high RPI without hardly playing and beating any good

byubyu

2/23/15 9:34am

okay. that makes sense.

2/23/15 9:35am

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