Use the following link for access to an Excel workbook with actual RPI ratings and ranks and other data for teams based on games through October 23, 2022: RPI Report 10.23.22. On the left of the RPI Report sheet, there are five color coded columns. These columns are based on the seasons from 2007 to the present (excluding the 2020 Covid-constrained season). They show the rank ranges as of this stage of the season from which #1 through #4 seeds have come. They also show the at large bubble range and that teams ranked #22 or better as of this stage of the season always have gotten at large selections.
If you compare the ratings and ranks in the Report to those published by the NCAA, you may see a few small differences. There are two games played on October 23 that are in the NCAA data base as played later: Central Michigan v Kent State and Stonehill v St. Francis Brooklyn. Because of this, the games are not in the data base the NCAA used for its October 23 ratings and ranks. If these games had been entered with the correct dates, the NCAA’s and my ratings and ranks would have matched exactly. (I verified this by deleting the games from my October 23 data base and recomputing the RPIs. With the games deleted, the two sets of RPIs match.)
CP I notice in America East that Binghamton projected as AQ (which I like ) but in end of year RPI Maine is about 15 spots ahead ? Just curious how that works . Love the data !
ReplyDeleteGreat question. I have Binghamton ending as #1 in the America East regular season standings. In the tournament, I have them playing Maine in the championship game, with Binghamton hosting as the #1 seed. Home field advantage is worth 0.0160. When I compute the rating difference between Maine and Binghamton and make the game location adjustment, Maine’s rating advantage is overcome and Binghamton ends up on the good side of a location-adjusted rating difference of 0.0052. Ordinarily this would look like a tie, but since it is a conference tournament someone has to be the champion. My convention is that the team with the better location-adjusted rating wins the shoot-out, thus I have Binghamton as the automatic qualifier.
ReplyDeleteThank you . Makes sense . I hope it happens just that way !
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