UConn's RPI Rating Is What!
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DobbsRover2
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Oh stop getting excited. You know it won't last. Last year UConn was back around #10 for awhile, finally moved to #5, and finished the season at #2, but still well back from the ND team with 3 losses. With this year's crushing OOC schedule, there may be some hope, but still thinking that UConn at best finishes in that same #2 position as the undefeated 2001-02 team that was way back of a UTenn team with 4 losses.
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Link http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basket...ketball-rpi?cid=ncaastatssocial_tw_sf16215667
Maryland Ranked 5th RPI 107
Miss State Ranked 8th RPI 189 Pathetic OOC Schedule
Maryland Ranked 5th RPI 107
Miss State Ranked 8th RPI 189 Pathetic OOC Schedule
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I spent my entire career in healthcare, that is to say, in science. Among many other things, here are two lessons that I learned from that experience:
1. Statistics are of the utmost importance.
2. The old adage, that one can find statistics to prove any supposition, is absolutely true.
Ergo, why get excited by this stuff? Recently, I angered a fellow-poster by being dismissive of his (her?) concerns about UConn not being unanimous #1 in some poll. We all know who #1 is, and know that fact will be borne out the only place it matters...between the lines. Whether through regional bias or unsupportable misinterpretation (or manipulation) of statistics, stuff like this will inevitably pop up. RPI (whatever that really is), rankings polls, forget all that foolishness and focus on results! The rest is all fluff.
1. Statistics are of the utmost importance.
2. The old adage, that one can find statistics to prove any supposition, is absolutely true.
Ergo, why get excited by this stuff? Recently, I angered a fellow-poster by being dismissive of his (her?) concerns about UConn not being unanimous #1 in some poll. We all know who #1 is, and know that fact will be borne out the only place it matters...between the lines. Whether through regional bias or unsupportable misinterpretation (or manipulation) of statistics, stuff like this will inevitably pop up. RPI (whatever that really is), rankings polls, forget all that foolishness and focus on results! The rest is all fluff.
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To be clear, if UConn is ranked #1 in RPI, that's nice, I guess, but big deal! As Dobbs points out, probably won't last.
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Mark Twain said there were three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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He also said: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Great thinker, he was...at least my daughter thinks so.
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Neither quote was Twain's.
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True. Twain/Clemens never took credit for the SF line...just attributed to him.
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Twain attributed the quote to Disraeli.
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That's a statistic!
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SOS is very important when calculating RPI
105 - Maryland 5-0 with SOS 295
106 - AR Pine Bluff 0-2 with SOS 5
161 - Houston 1-5 with SOS 27
162 - Lehigh 5-1 with SOS 283
So a team with a 4 game worst record have a RPI higher than a 5-1 team. SOS is huge.
Not sure if it was mentioned but UConn's SOS is #1.
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