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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

2025 ARTICLE 14: RPI REPORT AFTER WEEK 1 GAMES

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In 2025 Article 7 and 2025 Article 8 , I described how I assign pre-season NCAA RPI ratings and ranks to teams and then, assuming those rat...
Friday, August 1, 2025

2025 ARTICLE 13: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 6, GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS IN RELATION TO NCAA RPI RANKS AND STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RANKS

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This article, for the geographic regions within which the teams from each state play most of their games, provides information similar to th...

2025 ARTICLE 12: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 5, CONFERENCES IN RELATION TO NCAA RPI RANKS AND STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RANKS

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 In 2025 Pre-Season Predictions and Information, Parts 4 and 4B, for the individual teams I showed the relationship between predicted NCAA R...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

2025 ARTICLE 11: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 4B, TEAMS' SCHEDULES IN RELATION TO OPPONENTS' NCAA RPI RANKS AND STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RANKS

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In Part 4, I discussed and showed the differences between teams' NCAA RPI ranks and their ranks as Strength of Schedule contributors und...

2025 ARTICLE 10: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 4, TEAMS' NCAA RPI RANKS COMPARED TO THEIR RANKS AS STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE CONTRIBUTORS

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The NCAA RPI has a major defect, which is the way in which it computes a team's strength of schedule. As discussed on the RPI: Formula ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

2025 ARTICLE 9: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 3, "PREDICTED" CONFERENCE REGULAR SEASON AND TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS

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Continuing with "predictions," using the "results likelihood" method described in 2025 Article 9, my system uses the sam...
Monday, July 28, 2025

2025 ARTICLE 8: 2025 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS AND INFORMATION, PART 2, "PREDICTED" END-OF-SEASON RANKS AND RATINGS

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Once I have assigned pre-season strength ranks and ratings to teams, I combine those with teams' schedules to "predict" where ...
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cpthomas
I began studying the RPI in 2006. I "cloned" the RPI at the beginning of the 2007 season and have done RPI calculations for Division I women's soccer each year since then. I also have done studies of the Women's Soccer Committee's decision making process on seeds and at large selections for the NCAA Tournament, as well as of how teams desiring at large selections and seeds in the Tournament might do their non-conference scheduling with a view to maximizing their chances for a seed or at large selection. I've advised coaches from all of the Power 5 conferences, several of the top mid-majors, and a few lower end conferences, as well as some conferences as a whole. My objective is to provide for the Division I women's soccer community an RPI information resource that is at least as good as any RPI resource available for other sports, including for men's sports.
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