NCAA men's basketball: the head-scratching replacement for the RPI

[Plebe]

No. 1 Ohio St.? NCAA's hoops ratings questioned

By replacing the RPI, the NCAA tried to eliminate a perennial controversy on Selection Sunday. Instead, it appears the NCAA might have created a new set of problems for itself.​

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On Monday, the NCAA released its first-ever edition of the men's basketball NET ratings to boos from observers who wondered how a tool created to make things better had actually yielded more baffling results than the method it was designed to replace.​

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Among the critics of the new system Monday was statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, who called the first list "the worst rankings I've ever seen in any sport, ever."​

 

[hoopsfan22]

The goal is to consolidate money among a select dozen or two dozen schools. The NCAA is literally begging for an anti-trust investigation.

 

[BroadwayVa]

No. 1 Ohio St.? NCAA's hoops ratings questioned

By replacing the RPI, the NCAA tried to eliminate a perennial controversy on Selection Sunday. Instead, it appears the NCAA might have created a new set of problems for itself.​

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On Monday, the NCAA released its first-ever edition of the men's basketball NET ratings to boos from observers who wondered how a tool created to make things better had actually yielded more baffling results than the method it was designed to replace.​

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Among the critics of the new system Monday was statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, who called the first list "the worst rankings I've ever seen in any sport, ever."​

The solution is to make them ALL number one. Then they can grumble about how to list the number 1's ? Give them all a trophy and there will be no crying in the play yard.