Suprised I couldn't find anything on this.....But I suppose no chatter since there isn't much to discuss.
Everything pretty much goes by RPI now, which makes things much less interesting. And, this year is so Western dominated that there isn't even much fanbase chatter.
A few ideas at this point....
Denver and WMU are still at risk of losing their #1s.
Loveland is going to be all-west because the committee will have to keep eastern teams east attendance.
The last couple of at large spots are going to go right down to the last shift of the conf tourneys.
And, I was thinking of a slight to the PWR. What do people think of this:
1- Everything goes according to RPI, except if the RPIs are within .001 of each other, in which case....
2- The CoP will continue as is
3- H2H is changed to 1 single point to whichever team has the better head to head record
4- In the case where the RPI is very close, a team possessing both the CoP and H2H points, wins the compare.
I'm not sure where to call (RPI is very close) though. I chose .001 above just as a place holder, but I am thinking about a situation like this one:
Say Minnesota plays Ohio State 5 games (including B10 tourney)
Massachusetts plays BC 5 times (same idea)
And, the Minnesota v Massachusetts compare is really close.
Now, say that OSU and BC played a game in November.
Since both UMinn and UMass played those teams often, the result of the OSU/BC game is going to have a large effect on both teams RPIs, and therefore on the compare.
This is in some sense a strange result, since that game is early season, and didn't directly either Minn or Mass. So, it seems like a rating system in which this situation can't totally affect the compare would be better, and this is what I am going for.
In other words, the RPI parses too tightly. It makes differences where there isn't one. So, there should be a cushion for such things.
Anyone have comments?
Everything pretty much goes by RPI now, which makes things much less interesting. And, this year is so Western dominated that there isn't even much fanbase chatter.
A few ideas at this point....
Denver and WMU are still at risk of losing their #1s.
Loveland is going to be all-west because the committee will have to keep eastern teams east attendance.
The last couple of at large spots are going to go right down to the last shift of the conf tourneys.
And, I was thinking of a slight to the PWR. What do people think of this:
1- Everything goes according to RPI, except if the RPIs are within .001 of each other, in which case....
2- The CoP will continue as is
3- H2H is changed to 1 single point to whichever team has the better head to head record
4- In the case where the RPI is very close, a team possessing both the CoP and H2H points, wins the compare.
I'm not sure where to call (RPI is very close) though. I chose .001 above just as a place holder, but I am thinking about a situation like this one:
Say Minnesota plays Ohio State 5 games (including B10 tourney)
Massachusetts plays BC 5 times (same idea)
And, the Minnesota v Massachusetts compare is really close.
Now, say that OSU and BC played a game in November.
Since both UMinn and UMass played those teams often, the result of the OSU/BC game is going to have a large effect on both teams RPIs, and therefore on the compare.
This is in some sense a strange result, since that game is early season, and didn't directly either Minn or Mass. So, it seems like a rating system in which this situation can't totally affect the compare would be better, and this is what I am going for.
In other words, the RPI parses too tightly. It makes differences where there isn't one. So, there should be a cushion for such things.
Anyone have comments?