Can you guess why the Cajuns' RPI increased?

[ManAboutTown]

Does it have anything to do with Southern being an HBC?

[GoneGolfin]

_ Either

1. Our win pct went up - It did
2. Our opponents win pct went up - Possible
3. Our opponents opponents win pct went up - Not too sure.

Southern is 19-20, 19-18 minus our games so you added that to the second category. IDK, this stuff makes my head hurt a little. _

#1 Our winning percentage goes up in either case (win vs. UNO or win vs. Southern)

#2 I factored out all games played by our opponents

#3 I factored out all games played by our opponents' opponents

In this scenario, there was one game ... Cajuns vs. UNO or Cajuns vs. Southern. The RPI was higher when the Cajuns played Southern. Why?

It is good to make your head hurt a little.

Brian

[Rebel02]

Could it have something to do with the fact that Southern does not play as many SBC teams as compared to UNO (who plays every SBC team)? Therefore our OOWP is not greatly affected every time we play Southern as compared to when we play UNO.

The less "connected" an opponent is to your OOWP, the less affect it has on your RPI?

[GoneGolfin]

_ Does it have anything to do with Southern being an HBC? _

An HBC?

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

_ Well I don't see how it has anything to do with the teams ahead of UL that could change a .5717 (Tuesday) to a .5737 today.

I would say it has to be opponents-opponents. _

No, I factored that out of the equation ... as I did with Cajun opponents. Assume that the only game that took place last night was Cajuns vs. Southern or Cajuns vs. UNO.

Brian

[ManAboutTown]

_ An HBC?

Brian _

I don't know. I'm trying to think outside of the box. I thought maybe Historically Black Colleges had some sort of RPI bonus. Stupid, I know.

[GoneGolfin]

_ Could it have something to do with the fact that Southern does not play as many SBC teams as compared to UNO (who plays every SBC team)? Therefore our OOWP is not greatly affected every time we play Southern as compared to when we play UNO.

The less "connected" an opponent is to your OOWP, the less affect it has on your RPI? _

No.

Brian

[Turbine]

Out of conference road game?

[GoneGolfin]

_ I don't know. I'm trying to think outside of the box. I thought maybe Historically Black Colleges had some sort of RPI bonus. Stupid, I know. _

RPI Bonuses do not factor in. You can think of this simply in terms of the Base RPI.

Think about the formula itself.

Brian

[wcd35]

Lets state what we know about the scenarios:

SU
2nd time we played them
Out of conference road game
Win to go to 2-0 vs them
Better record than UNO

UNO
3rd time we played them
In conference road series
Win to go to 3-0 vs them
Bad record

Lets go with something to do with it being out of conference and possibly on the road

Its probably something staring us in the face LOL