RPI Forecast

[waggy]

I imagine many here at least occassionally visit RPI Forecast. They added a very interesting feature starting yesterday. For every team the RPI is broken down by contribution from every team. So you can see what team is expected to help your RPI most, all the way down to the least. Very interesting.

In the case of X, it's interesting to see that K State is the OOC opponent expected to help our RPI most. Villanova is the team we don't even play that is expected to help our RPI the most. And Fordham is a massive, huge, gigantic weight. You'll notice that of the teams that help X the most, that it is Xavier itself that is far and away the reason for it's success. This is the case with most teams. Very telling that of the teams expected to help Fordhams RPI, that Fordham is almost it's own worst enemy.

Here is a link to RPI Forecasts blog post (http://rpiforecast.blogspot.com/2009/12/rpi-broken-down-by-contributions-by.html) announcing the new feature.

[Masterofreality]

F-m sucks. Can we please get them and Lossalle out of this league?

I can't believe that the same things we've said about those two schools for 12 years are still being said today. Every year, despite some positive predictions to the contrary, they contribute zero.

Bottom line, no facilities, no money, no committment. All money take and no giveback.

Here's a question, probably for our resident math genius- MHett.

What would the league RPI rating and ranking be if Lossalle and F-M were excluded from the calculation?

[bigdiggins]

Anyone have any insight as to why we get railroaded into playing Fordham twice? Why can't the Bonnies or someone who has no shot at ever getting an at-large even after an expansion to 96 teams get the pleasure of that RPI killer twice?

[SixFig]

The former A-10 schedule philosophy was that you play other teams in your "winning class" more. So St. Joes and X and Dayton would play twice because they were the best teams. But the powers that be saw that this lead to less bids because the good teams beat each other and decreased win totals. Therefore, they arranged the schedule so you would play one team from each "winning class" twice, in our case the upper class (Dayton), middle class (Charlotte) and lower class (Fordham)