RPI up to 8

[dawgatUSM]

Sweep this weekend and it probably stays top 10.

 

[tatedog]

Careful now, HK is gonna have to write a column on moving NCAA baseball regionals to neutral sites if this keeps up.

 

[MSUDC11]

Obviously not complaining about the jump we made, but that shows you how skewed and inconsistent the RPI formula really is.

Mizzou and Troy are within three spots of each other in the RPI. Sweep Mizzou at home and our RPI drops by two spots. Win one game at Troy and we move up four places. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but it works in our favor this time.

 

[8dog]

Teams ahead of us lost so thats a big reason. Troy was 5 games over .500. Mizzou is under .500. Thats what matters most in the rpi number. Not their rank. Addiitionally a win at troy is twice as valuable as a win at home. Finally the difference in rpi numbers between those bunched together isnt very big.

 

[johnson86-1]

Obviously not complaining about the jump we made, but that shows you how skewed and inconsistent the RPI formula really is.

Mizzou and Troy are within three spots of each other in the RPI. Sweep Mizzou at home and our RPI drops by two spots. Win one game at Troy and we move up four places. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but it works in our favor this time.

Or it could just be evidence that a lot of teams are bunched together around us right now. For us to jump that many spots this late in the season, I assume it means that there is basically zero difference between 13 and 8 at this point in the RPI and if you want to use RPI, you should really look at groupings of teams based on the result of the RPI formula rather than looking at a ranking of those numbers.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

This is the dumbest thing about RPI.

It's a ranking of numbers decided by a formula, instead of just showing the number itself - the ranking totally misrepresents the number. You could have The difference between 10th and 20th place be .01 point, and the difference between 20th and 21st be .20 points, and people see the move from 10th to 18th as huge and 20th to 21st as minor.

 

[8dog]

Which is why its a terrible tool to blindly follow but a good tool to pare down the universe of teams you need to really examine.

 

[615dawg]

Florida State losing to Jacksonville and Florida Gulf Coast midweek has helped.

Our "big wins" - Florida, Vandy, Ole Miss are all winning

and Eastern Kentucky has won 6 of 7 and has moved into the top 200 RPI.

 

[patdog]

It's a ranking of numbers decided by a formula, instead of just showing the number itself - the ranking totally misrepresents the number. You could have The difference between 10th and 20th place be .01 point, and the difference between 20th and 21st be .20 points, and people see the move from 10th to 18th as huge and 20th to 21st as minor.

And that's exactly what's happening here. The RPI difference between us at #8 and the #7 team is as big as the difference between us and the #17 team.

 

[MedDawg]

warrennolan.com shows the numbers...

It's a ranking of numbers decided by a formula, instead of just showing the number itself - the ranking totally misrepresents the number. You could have The difference between 10th and 20th place be .01 point, and the difference between 20th and 21st be .20 points, and people see the move from 10th to 18th as huge and 20th to 21st as minor.

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2016/rpi

During the season, this is my goto page...

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2016/conference/SEC

The best part is that RPIs update within minutes of a game finishing. The scores below don't update quickly, though. Scores of games in progress are best found on twitter or

http://www.d1baseball.com/daily/today.htm

 

[OleMissLogo]

It's a ranking of numbers decided by a formula, instead of just showing the number itself - the ranking totally misrepresents the number. You could have The difference between 10th and 20th place be .01 point, and the difference between 20th and 21st be .20 points, and people see the move from 10th to 18th as huge and 20th to 21st as minor.

I wouldn't say it is the dumbest thing about the RPI but rather the people that use it.

I prefer to look at the actual RPI rather than RPI rank (most people say RPI when they mean RPI rank) and then I also take the actual RPI into account when looking at vs Top 25, sub-200 losses, etc. If there is basically no difference in 22-28 in the RPI but a gap at 29, then I generally look at wins vs 1-28 to get a bigger picture. Though if I'm looking at it quickly to get a brief snapshot, then I'll just go ahead and use RPI rank as it is.