Seemingly never ending Iowa MBB thread (still going.....)
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Yes, and the reason their RPI isn't well into the 100's are those Kansas and North Carolina wins in November.
Well, I'm sorry that you like to torture yourself. I'm not sure what your reply has to do with my argument at all, but you do you.
Yeah, I know, but (and correct me if I'm wrong because I don't use these metrics religiously or really at all) I thought RPI is based more on strength of schedule and opponents success. So with them beating Kansas and UNC early in the season, it boosted their RPI sky high, and then as they lost to teams within the B1G (which wouldn't hurt the B1G overall because it is losing to a team that essentially bumps up their RPI as theirs(IUs) goes down) keeping the RPI about even since it has struggled but the teams they played in non-conference stay about where they were? My assumption was they came into the league with a really high RPI, and have dropped like a rock within the B1G because of losses on the road, but it wouldnt affect the overall RPI of the B1G.(?)
Please let me know it that is wrong, because I truly don't know. I just know the weighted percentages that go into the RPI, but not actually how each loss/win calculates out.
I misinterpreted your comment, I thought you were implying Indiana was one of the teams that had a middle of the pack RPI in the B1G. The quote you responded to listed 5 teams with RPI's in the 50's and 60's, my bad.
You can't just average all the averages of each team in the two conferences, especially when one league has 4 more teams. You have to look at the actual RPI number and the Big 12 is alot higher than the Big 10 this years.
The only reason they are even close like I said is the Big 10 has a bunch of 16-15 type teams that just beat up on other teams in the 50-70 range all season without doing much else.
They are really hard to watch. They remind of a lot of K-State this year honestly. A solid group of players that is melting down because the coach can't get a grip.
Indiana's RPI is worse than Iowa's 92 to 93. I'm sure those wins skew it a bit, but not that much for the entire conference.
I guess, I just thought by them coming in with such a high RPI, every time they lost it was a good RPI boost for the other team in the B1G that beat them. So overall, not changing the average RPI that much, even though they are now down to 93
Did you factor Texas and Oklahoma into it also? When you only have 10 teams in a conference and 2 of them are in the 160's thats going to skew the averages also.
If you like streetball they are fun to watch, however that doesnt really win basketball games.
I know a lot more goes into what makes which conference better. I was just stating that it was interesting.
It also doesn't help the Big 12 that they have two teams almost on Rutgers level according to the RPI. That means the other eight Big 12 teams get at least four games against pretty much a Rutgers level team.
I think it is to an extent. But, those wins count too, you can't just take away two wins they have and cherry pick that out. If you're gonna do that, you have to do that for every team.
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