Nice detective work Brian.
Nice detective work Brian.
Amazed how you deduced exactly where the Opponent's opponents records were off in WN. Pretty awesome.
I have also reverse engineered the penalty formula that is still in place for the RPI. I have communicated this to Warren Nolan ... and he confirmed that he is not accounting for these penalties at present. Here is the formula I arrived at ...
A .0022 penalty is assessed for ...
- The first four non-D1 games played
- The sixth non-D1 game that is played
- Each non-D1 game played after six
Additionally ...
- Home loss to a non-D1 opponent is assessed a penalty of .0022
- Neutral site loss to a non-D1 opponent is assessed a penalty of .0017 (mid-point between .0022 and .0011 ... rounded up)
- Road loss to a non-D1 opponent is assessed a penalty of .0011
A tie with a non-D1 opponent is not assessed a penalty.
A good cross section of examples from 2013 ...
- Florida Gulf Coast only played (1) non-D1 opponent in 2013. They lost to Ave Maria at home and were assessed an RPI penalty of .0022.
- The same happened to Texas Tech (lost to Lubbock Christian at home) ... penalty of .0022.
- Dartmouth played (5) non-D1 games ... and lost one of them. The total penalty was .0039. This is a .0017 penalty for the neutral site loss to Slippery Rock ... and .0022 for playing four or more (but less than six) non-D1 games. The NCAA logged this as (2) penalties.
- Maine played (4) non-D1 games and was assessed a penalty of .0022.
- UMES played (1) non-D1 game ... a road loss to Wilmington (DE) ... resulting in a penalty of .0011.
- Prairie View had (2) losses vs. non-D1 opponents (one home, one road) and played (10) games vs. non-D1 opponents. They were assessed (8) penalties for a total of .0165. So, this seems to be ... (1) penalty for the first four non-D1 games ... another for the 5th and 6th ... and then a penalty for each one after the 6th. That would be (6) penalties total for non-D1 games played (.0132) plus (2) penalties for the losses (.0022 + .0011 = .0033). This gives us our .0165 total penalty.
- North Dakota played (8) games vs. non-D1 competition (all neutral site games), lost twice, and tied once. They were assessed (6) penalties for a total of .0122. It does not seem that a penalty was assessed for the tie (only losses are penalized). Thus we have ... .0088 or (4 * .0022 = .0088) for the number of non-D1 games played (4th, 6th, 7th, 8th) ... plus (2 * .0017 = .0034) for the neutral site losses ... for a total of .0122.
Brian
Brian, you amaze me with every single post! Sometimes I don't have time to read them as thoroughly as I should and I definitely am smarter when I finish, even if I only get half of your post!
Side note: I wonder who Ave Maria has on their team?
Keep up the good ... no, GREAT work ... we all appreciate it ... and I feel like I owe you some money.
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