Haven't looked at the NET but it's all about playing as many Q1s as possible, win or lose it's a win. That's why so many of us have been saying schedule more difficult OOC games. Though I know some here say that's very difficult to accomplish. It's almost like a cliche these days ..... the John Chaney way.
Now we see why we probably are a one bid league. Depending how things shake out with Dayton, maybe a 2 bid league at best.
things have changes a lot since the John Chaney days.
Guess you could try to make them, but then you've got to make us too. I don't see us playing at Radford or Longwood too often.
Really that long?
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I feel I started following it about Beilein‘s first season, or maybe 1996. Either way after the 1993 change. And remember Palm at-large predictions becoming less reliable after location adjustment was added.Good article on the history of the RPI through 2003. Debuted in 1981 and looks like it was being reverse engineered about 10 years later. Was tweaked a couple of times over the years, and in fact it originally had a road factor included but it was quickly removed.
A Madness To The Method? A top-secret computer formula, the RPI, is often the difference between a team's receiving an NCAA at-large berth or going to the NIT. Its critics think there are better yardsticks--and they may be right
One day last May, Gary K. Johnson, senior assistant director of statistics for the NCAA, boarded an airliner and greeted the man seated beside him. Johnson's
I believe RPI formula wasn’t actually released until after that article was published, in 2006. Before then the RPI also included mysterious arbitrary adjustments beyond the factors that are known today, and these adjustments were never fully reverse engineered. The article mentions them and how the RPI publishers at the time don’t get it fully right.Good article on the history of the RPI through 2003. Debuted in 1981 and looks like it was being reverse engineered about 10 years later. Was tweaked a couple of times over the years, and in fact it originally had a road factor included but it was quickly removed.
A Madness To The Method? A top-secret computer formula, the RPI, is often the difference between a team's receiving an NCAA at-large berth or going to the NIT. Its critics think there are better yardsticks--and they may be right
One day last May, Gary K. Johnson, senior assistant director of statistics for the NCAA, boarded an airliner and greeted the man seated beside him. Johnson's
To prevent teams from gaming it, like they did for the RPI. See Goodharts Law.
Goodhart's law isn't about sports, it was originally stated about economics but has been shown to apply generally. Metrics stop being useful when they become a target. This has been shown over and over again, and is common sense really. Metrics all have flaws, a single number can't capture the nuance of complicated systems. When a metric becomes a target (e.g. I want to get the best RPI/NET to maximize my post season chances) people will naturally take advantage of its flaws and it ceases to be as useful as it was before, when people were not trying to game the metric.
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Why would you assume only the "unbiased portion" would game the system? The "biased portion" usually has much more power to game the system.
Palm states the A-10 is one bid league if Dayton wins the auto bid as well. So, yeah, still an uphill battle for us. Keep stacking wins.Palm slides us back in as the auto, noting we're a bid stealer who otherwise wouldn't be in the field. Dayton sitting at a 6-seed.
Bracketology Bubble Watch: Cincinnati falls from field, Gonzaga looks to keep tournament hopes alive
The Bearcats suffered a major setback on Wednesday after their loss to Oklahoma State in Big 12 action
Lunardi hasn't updated today.
Think a 16-2 A-10 team would be tough to leave out, but sadly it is a real uphill battle. We didn't make enough hay in the OOC.
