2013 Bracketbuster

[1998braves64]

Anybody know approximately what our RPI may have been right now if we could have upset the Gophers earlier this season? Just curious how much of a difference one "big win" could make.

Bisonaudit, I know you are out there.

Well lately probably not much since they have been losing games like they are going out of style!

[tjbison]

Anybody know approximately what our RPI may have been right now if we could have upset the Gophers earlier this season? Just curious how much of a difference one "big win" could make.

Bisonaudit, I know you are out there.

SDSU has a top 25 win against New Mexico, and we are still head of them so guessing not much higher than we are

And in case you didn't know NM is rated higher than UM this week and we are higher than SDSU

Unless I'm wrong in which I'm sure ill get corrected

[fargocyclone]

Anybody know approximately what our RPI may have been right now if we could have upset the Gophers earlier this season? Just curious how much of a difference one "big win" could make.

Bisonaudit, I know you are out there.

Approximately .01 better to put us around #53. [(19/23 - 18/23)/4 = 0.0109]* but you also tacked a loss on the Gophs which would negatively impact our ranking, but not by much. I don't want to do the calculations for that part.

Remember, RPI isn't really how you play, it's who you play. Also, as some might have picked up on here, I think it sucks.

*Edit: I needed to drop the non-counters from NDSU's record, so the actual change is 0.0125 from NDSU's record. Adding in a loss to our opponent's record would would drop our score by ~1/400*50%=.00125 (assuming our 20 opponents all played 20 opponents) so we're back to the #53 number. Doing the opponents' opponents' records would probably be a waste of time...

[GRAFTONBISON]

SDSU has a top 25 win against New Mexico, and we are still head of them so guessing not much higher than we are

And in case you didn't know NM is rated higher than UM this week and we are higher than SDSU

Unless I'm wrong in which I'm sure ill get corrected

That's what I kind of figured but just had the random thought today.

[NDSUstudent]

SDSU has a top 25 win against New Mexico, and we are still head of them so guessing not much higher than we are

True but SDSU also lost to a team with an RPI over 310 and USD. Our worst loss is to a middle of the pack Horizon League team, that kind of balances things out.

I think with a win at the Barn our RPI right now would be around 50.

[GRAFTONBISON]

True but SDSU also lost to a team with an RPI over 310 and USD. Our worst loss is to a middle of the pack Horizon League team, that kind of balances things out.

I think with a win at the Barn our RPI right now would be around 50.

I'm counting on Bisonaudit for the exact calculation.

[tjbison]

True but SDSU also lost to a team with an RPI over 310 and USD. Our worst loss is to a middle of the pack Horizon League team, that kind of balances things out.

I think with a win at the Barn our RPI right now would be around 50.

Hard to figure, but we did lose to SDSU and WIU, so I think it balances right out..... If we can win our BB game that would say a lot

[fargocyclone]

Approximately .01 better to put us around #53. [(19/23 - 18/23)/4 = 0.0109] but you also tacked a loss on the Gophs which would negatively impact our ranking, but not by much. I don't want to do the calculations for that part.

Remember, RPI isn't really how you play, it's who you play. Also, as some might have picked up on here, I think it sucks.

Hard to figure, but we did lose to SDSU and WIU, so I think it balances right out..... If we can win our BB game that would say a lot

I'm counting on Bisonaudit for the exact calculation.

Sometimes I feel like no one listens to me....

[tjbison]

Sometimes I feel like no one listens to me....

So basically what your saying is the same as what we are saying?

[fargocyclone]

So basically what your saying is the same as what we are saying?

Haha, yeah but with the numbers Grafton was looking for.