Even More Ignorance about the RPI

[tornado]

In an article about the RPI this writer for the Fresno Bee says this about Bradley and the Missouri Valley:

"Teams such as Kansas, which played a game at their opponents' gym only once before Jan. 14 last season, will be penalized in the RPI, though it didn't matter much for the Jayhawks as the traditional power won the Big 12 tournament title last season and were given a No. 4 NCAA Tournament seed in the Oakland Region.

They were then promptly escorted out of the tournament in the first round
by the Bradley Braves.
Those rats from the Missouri Valley Conference again.

Rats?
There you go.......a great idea for our mascot!!

http://www.fresnobee.com/336/story/18988.html

The overall implication of the story is that the MVC really doesn't deserve the high RPI they have, as he says this:

"The Ratings Percentage Index, created in 1981 to supply data to the tournament selection committee for at-large bids and seeding, has been the focus of ridicule from some, glee for others.

It certainly has been a friend to the Missouri Valley Conference, which changed its scheduling practices to bolster the number of teams the conference gets into the tournament."

[Da Coach]

There was an editorial and a letter to the editor in today's PJ Star--

http://pjstar.com/stories/121506/EDI_BBPROCJJ.059.shtml

http://pjstar.com/stories/121506/FOR_BBQ3I77S.024.shtml

I mostly agree with the letter writer. The choices the committee came up with are quite lame.

[tornado]

I really like one of the names that guy writing in the 2nd link suggests.

[Bravesfan]

Re: Even More Ignorance about the RPI

In an article about the RPI this writer for the Fresno Bee says this about Bradley and the Missouri Valley:

"Teams such as Kansas, which played a game at their opponents' gym only once before Jan. 14 last season, will be penalized in the RPI, though it didn't matter much for the Jayhawks as the traditional power won the Big 12 tournament title last season and were given a No. 4 NCAA Tournament seed in the Oakland Region.

They were then promptly escorted out of the tournament in the first round
by the Bradley Braves.
Those rats from the Missouri Valley Conference again.

Rats?
There you go.......a great idea for our mascot!!

http://www.fresnobee.com/336/story/18988.html

The overall implication of the story is that the MVC really doesn't deserve the high RPI they have, as he says this:

"The Ratings Percentage Index, created in 1981 to supply data to the tournament selection committee for at-large bids and seeding, has been the focus of ridicule from some, glee for others.

It certainly has been a friend to the Missouri Valley Conference, which changed its scheduling practices to bolster the number of teams the conference gets into the tournament."

I think by using the term rat, he is saying that the Valley is a great conference, but that they still don't deserve so many teams in the tournament because they always "get in the way" of teams like Kansas each year. He says that knowing that only "high profile" teams like Kansas and Duke should be playing in the tournament every year, and that good teams out of the "little people" club have no business taking up the space of the BCS boys!

Yes whomever you are who writes for the Fresno Bee, we are on to you! We know what you are saying, even if you don't have the spine to say it clearly! Please admit that you have a disdain for non-BCS teams, and please admit that you, Digger, Packer and company meet every March to throw darts at the teams that disrupt your Final Four pool every year! In other words, STAND UP AND BE A MAN!