This blog and the website are for fans, for college team coaching staffs, and for players and their parents. The blog, in particular, is a place for asking questions, grumbling about the RPI and the Women's Soccer Committee's decisions, and expressing your thoughts about the RPI and "bracketology" for the DI Women's Soccer Tournament.
For those who have been there before, and for those who haven't yet, I’ve just completed an update of all the pages of the RPI for
Division I Women’s Soccer website. The
website covers two basic subjects: (1)
the RPI and how it works and (2) the NCAA Tournament at large selection,
seeding, and bracket formation process, including the relationship between
scheduling, the RPI, and the NCAA Tournament.
All information at the website now is current through the
2015 season. In addition, I’ve
re-written parts of many of the pages and all of some of them, making them more
clear and concise and eliminating excess material that wouldn’t interest most
readers. Among the pages I’ve re-written
is the “RPI: Modified RPI?” page, on which I now have comparisons of a number
of rating systems including the different RPI systems the Women’s Soccer
Committee has used over the last nine years, several alternative rating systems
I have developed, and three Elo-based systems.
And, on the “NCAA Tournament: Scheduling Towards the Tournament” page, I’ve
included a new tool for determining the likely outcomes of a team’s future
games.
The website now is a “finished” product, except for future
annual data updates. I hope you’ll visit
it and also let others interested in Division I women’s soccer know about it and about this "Blogspace."
Here's to an exciting and interesting 2016 Division I Women's Soccer season!
