Projection- 2013-14 Bradley Strength of Schedule & RPI

[Da Coach]

RPIForecast.com projects ahead for each of the 351 Division I teams (includes transitional schools)- It is updated daily taking into consideration each game played, and they just posted their initial projections for the 2013-14 season.

http://www.rpiforecast.com/index2.html

Here are the MVC teams-

http://www.rpiforecast.com/confs/MVC.html

Bradley forecast-

http://www.rpiforecast.com/teams/Bradley.html

Note their projected out of conference Strength of Schedule (OOC SOS) for Bradley is 333, and full season SOS of 180. Loyola at #349 (worst in all of D1) is the only one worse than Bradley's OOC SOS. They were very accurate all last year in projecting Bradley's OOC SOS last year around 340 (it ended up #339). But Bradley's 333 is still more than 100 slots lower than the next MVC team SIU (226).
Their projection for Bradley's RPI at the end of the year is 169. Again, in past years, this site has been very accurate. The extremely low RPI projection is due to the weak pre-conference schedule and the greatly weakened MVC (note only 1 MVC team is projected to be in the top 60 in RPI).
They project Bradley's record to end up just 17-14, and 8-10 in the MVC, which seems a bit low to me, and lower than just about every other preseason prediction we've seen so far.

Scroll down on this page to see the Bradley schedule, and the projected RPI of each opponent-

http://www.rpiforecast.com/teams/Bradley.html

[Buesch N Chips]

It says we should go into MVC play 11-2, and that we would finish 18-13. I'd say that would be a solid finish, although I think we win 20.

[Da Coach]

It says we should go into MVC play 11-2, and that we would finish 18-13. I'd say that would be a solid finish, although I think we win 20.

His formula (based on the Sagarin formula) projects that Bradley will be favored to win every pre-conference game except the games at Illinois and Arizona State.