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    Re: Finally ranked!

    Quote Originally Posted by inudesu View Post
    Except that nobody has ever once said that.

    The point of using a metric like RPI isn't to deal with the extremes of 0-40 or 40-0. The point is to help decide between two teams that are both 30-25. Or one team that is 31-24 and another that is 29-26 but played a harder schedule.

    You've got to find a balance to break those ties and to account for disparate scheduling. RPI and similar rankings have their drawbacks and you can always quibble with the numbers (personally, I like whatever formula works best for Tech in a given year) but pure record is clearly not ideal either. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone do what you suggest and play the weakest possible schedule every year just looking for wins?
    you are correct about what rpi should be used for, but the problem is that it is used along with strength of schedule. instead of using rpi to help evaluate two teams with similar records, they use strength of schedule to help evaluate two teams with similar rpi. rpi is heavily weighted toward schedule strength, so it doesn't make sense to consider rpi and strength of schedule. even worse is if you use rpi to determine strength of schedule -- then you're rewarding teams for losing to teams that lose to teams that win a lot.

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    Re: Finally ranked!

    We dropped to #25... Beating lsu will help us get back to around 22 or so.

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    Re: Finally ranked!

    I'm pretty surprised we stayed in.

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    Re: Finally ranked!

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Dawg View Post
    I'm pretty surprised we stayed in.
    This ain't MBB or football. Remember nothing really matters until the week of the C-USA championship. Being ranked at this point is a feel good, but meaningless in the big picture.

    I'm sure our AD is trying to figure our a way to add this to his resume along with the first ever Tech cycle.

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    Re: Finally ranked!

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    This ain't MBB or football. Remember nothing really matters until the week of the C-USA championship. Being ranked at this point is a feel good, but meaningless in the big picture.

    I'm sure our AD is trying to figure our a way to add this to his resume along with the first ever Tech cycle.

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