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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2090272, member: 199"] Yeah - I believe that is what he is implying. As comes across in the interview there really is a ton of information and a staggering number of schools to review, and they need to 'organize it in some way' and they are using RPI as the determining organizational principle. I don't have a problem with that in a general way, but it is a very blunt instrument and has gross anomalies built in. Harvard for example has an RPI of 43 and Temple has one of 18 but are they really that strong - in head to head do you think beating Temple is more significant than Oklahoma or Tenn at #19 and #20 or for Harvard, Michigan at 48 and Cal at 56? The problem with something that is based on W/L records of opponents and their opponents is not actually defining the strength or weakness of a team. By the way - the team sheet is basically the same format and information as the NittyGritty site: [URL="http://warrennolan.com/basketballw/2017/nittypro3"]Nitty Gritty Report with Team Pages for 2016-2017 NCAA Women's College Basketball - WarrenNolan.com[/URL] And another question for geeks: I have found that there are some strange results that have persisted in the Sagarin listings this year - I have been sort of disappointed and surprised by the rankings he comes up with as you move away from the top 5 and there have been some strange things in the teens - anyone else having the same issues. There have been some marked divergences with the Massey site. Michigan is the most obvious one - they persisted in the low teens for months on Sagarin before now finally dropping to 23 while Massey has consistently had them in the high twenties and low thirties till they have now dropped to 38. They haven't beaten any decent team all year and it took four losses in their last 5 games to get them out of the teens on Sagarin. (I don't think I have seen anything quite so weird in either Masseys or Sagarin after January before.) [/QUOTE]

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