ESPN's BPI (Basketball Power Index)

[LoTrader]

ESPN's brand-new Basketball Power Index (BPI) for women's college basketball: UConn's great, but BPI says take the field

 

[Kaizen]

Massy has UConn 58.24% winning the champ, ND 6.54%.

Massey Ratings

 

[Centerstream]

I posted the BPI link in the ESPN TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE? thread earlier today.

I didn't know whether or not it deserved to be a thread.

Personally I have absolutely no faith in any system (sports related) that is based on a software program. I was a sw tester for over 20 years and never tested a perfect program and any sports related sw program can be easily altered to be biased.

 

[LoTrader]

I posted the BPI link in the ESPN TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE? thread earlier today.

I didn't know whether or not it deserved to be a thread.

Personally I have absolutely no faith in any system (sports related) that is based on a software program. I was a sw tester for over 20 years and never tested a perfect program and any sports related sw program can be easily altered to be biased.

Everything can be done in software! HA!

 

[Centerstream]

Everything can be done in software! HA!

You are 100% correct but in days long gone, a lot of software was actually developed and tested rigorously, with many safeguards (however I stand by claim that no program was bug free). However, outsourcing quickly changed the quality of the development and testing of software. You get what you pay for...

Ending my software development diatribe on this thread.

 

[Bigboote]

And fivethirtyeight has them at 65%.

Massey should truncate his percentages. He doesn't know them to a hundredth of a per cent, as evidenced by the fact that other reputable forecasters diverge from his numbers by 10-20%. (sorry, pet peeve)

 

[Gus Mahler]

The article has a glaring error, in that it confuses South Carolina with Southern California as the only school other than UConn or UT to win back-to-back titles.