Bradley's RPI

[tornado]

A couple notches ahead of SIU at #60, but it's so early that there are many anomalies,
such as Kennesaw State being RPI #28 just because they beat WIU....

http://kenpom.com/rate.php

http://kenpom.com/conf.php?y=2009&c=MVC&t=p

[tornado]

BTW---yesterday & today were the busiest days by every measure on BradleyFans since early April when BU was still playing in the CBI!!

[MacabreMob]

A couple notches ahead of SIU at #60, but it's so early that there are many anomalies,
such as Kennesaw State being RPI #28 just because they beat WIU....

http://kenpom.com/rate.php

http://kenpom.com/conf.php?y=2009&c=MVC&t=p

That's not the RPI - that's KenPom's Rating.

Read KenPom's thing on the RPI being Dead:

http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/the_rpi_is_dead/

Bradley's RPI according to Palm thru games played on 11-14 is tied for 11th with about 75 other teams.

[shaunguth]

As of 5:07pm CT:

3 Evansville 0.8750
7 Creighton 0.7500
40 Missouri State 0.5500
91 Bradley 0.4375
98 Wichita St. 0.3750
122 Northern Iowa 0.2500
169 Southern Ill. 0.2500
181 Illinois St. 0.2500
226 Drake 0.0000
282 Indiana St. 0.0000

1 Atlantic Coast 0.4612
2 Big 12 0.4394
3 Big Ten 0.4250
4 Missouri Valley 0.4153
5 Colonial Athletic 0.4045
6 Big South 0.3972
7 Big East 0.3906
8 West Coast 0.3854
9 Patriot League 0.3789
10 Southeastern 0.3646

[epistibrain]

I'm trying not to think too closely about Bradley's RPI--after next Tuesday it will be so low that it will take some time to bounce back. I know the difficulties that arose scheduling a tournament and I'm not complaining, but the RPI is 75% SOS (between first and second order) and Bradley is about to play two teams that were 288 and 291 last year. I can't see any way they'll avoid a major drop.

[thefish7]

RPI is 50% SOS. 25% is your winning percentage, and 25% is your opponents' SOS. All winning percentages are also adjusted for home and road games, with road games being given a substantially higher weight.

[Rusty 54]

Florida and Michigan State on the road is about as good as we can do for SOS IMHO. It's not like the top BCS teams are lining up at our door to play us.

[TheAsianSensation]

Isn't it a bit early for this

[Bradleyguy10]

Yeah Florida and MSU away games...that's huge. Even playing Butler may help, and once UIC starts winning some games (hopefully) our rpi may be better when all is said and done for the noncon than what some thought.

[shaunguth]

Isn't it a bit early for this

A look at the top of the RPI ratings will tell you it most definitely is!

1 Niagara 1-0 0.8750
2 Auburn 1-0 0.8750
3 Cleveland St. 1-0 0.8750
4 Evansville 1-0 0.8750

[georgethedog]

A look at the top of the RPI ratings will tell you it most definitely is!

1 Niagara 1-0 0.8750
2 Auburn 1-0 0.8750
3 Cleveland St. 1-0 0.8750
4 Evansville 1-0 0.8750

There is the Final Four this year!

[mportsch]

RPI is irrelevant until well into the season. In a few weeks, Pomeroy Ratings should be somewhat indicitive of team quality, but I'd suggest ignoring RPI at least until conference season.

[tornado]

not that it helps our RPI, but BOTH Lewis and UW-Platteville remain undefeated.
Platteville clobbered Vitterbo 87-56, and Lewis clobbered Michigan Tech 83-66 to go 2-0, with Lewis' Brandon Dagans getting named GLVC (Great Lakes Valley Conference) Player of the Week.

http://lewisflyers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111708aab.html

Michigan Tech, by the way, is no pushover, as they played two exhibition games against D-I's in which they played respectably, and then they clobbered Wisconsin-Parkside in their opener.

[tornado]

The present RPI numbers are kinda weird....

the MVC teams who have played such patsies are being hurt and the overall conference RPI is now down around 14th among conferences.

Here are the individual team RPI's


RPI Rk
7 Evansville
29 Bradley -- also BU has the #20 Strength of Schedule!
51 Creighton
159 Southern Ill.
176 Drake
194 Missouri State
231 Indiana St.
287 Illinois St.
291 Wichita St.
299 Northern Iowa

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_mvc_Men.html

the teams from Drake on down are hurt by losses to bad teams, or by overall bad scheduling,
and BU is helped by the fact that UIC and Florida are winning.

[ER3]

The present RPI numbers are kinda weird....

the MVC teams who have played such patsies are being hurt and the overall conference RPI is now down around 14th among conferences.

Here are the individual team RPI's


RPI Rk
7 Evansville
29 Bradley -- also BU has the #20 Strength of Schedule!
51 Creighton
159 Southern Ill.
176 Drake
194 Missouri State
231 Indiana St.
287 Illinois St.
291 Wichita St.
299 Northern Iowa

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_mvc_Men.html

Well, we have at least 4 patsies coming up (UMKC, FGCU, SEMO, SIU-E) that are going to destroy our strength of schedule, and the Valley is way down this year...so I highly doubt that our RPI is going to be something worth following throughout the year.
Winning the Valley Tourney is likely the only shot that a Valley team has at getting into the Tournament this year...