Comments on: Combining RPI Philosophy With Efficiency Rankings, With a Bracket Projection

By: José Ovechkin

José Ovechkin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:59:28 +0000

fair enough…and didn’t mean to call your work “nonsense.” i just hate the patronizing celebration of the underdog that the tournament represents.

Ohio sucks.

By: Jay V Of Considerable Influence

Jay V Of Considerable Influence — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:56:23 +0000

Good to see Norlander in the house!

By: BFFredo

BFFredo — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:26:38 +0000

In retrospect, it was my Biology degree that was the waste of time.

/high fives

Did you get the Minor in Chemistry as well?

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:24:26 +0000

fair enough…and didn’t mean to call your work “nonsense.” i just hate the patronizing celebration of the underdog that the tournament represents.

well, it also celebrates chokers.

By: mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin'

mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin' — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:23:54 +0000

miz, what do you think we need to do to “fix” this and everything else in sports?

leave it the fuck alone.

By: spencer096

spencer096 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:23:40 +0000

fair enough…and didn’t mean to call your work “nonsense.” i just hate the patronizing celebration of the underdog that the tournament represents.

By: College Hoops Journal

College Hoops Journal — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:22:45 +0000

Thanks for the link love, Lisk. Continually great work done by you over here; would love to get you on the pod to discuss this and other things in March.

I like the look of this. The key to remember in all this RPI banter is that it’s not the final few teams that are the issue. The NCAA continually botches seeding, and that can have profound effects on the bracket. Many float toward talking about teams 66 through 68, 69 and 70. But making sure that four seed is labeled as such, and not a miscalculated to a six seed, is paramount to bracket integrity. It’ll never be perfect, but we can keep tweaking and stop relying on a system that would be laughed out of the room if it was introduced in 2012. Instead, the RPI’s been around more than 30 years, and so the NCAA values it like a kid’s first baseball mitt.

As an aside, I can’t believe I remembered the password TBL assigned me to this joint more than four years ago.

By: Jason Lisk

Jason Lisk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:20:54 +0000

lisk…does it ever occur to you that you’re wasting your time with this nonsense? all this research, all this work…all for setting a bracket that’s just as controversial as the BCS only for it to mean nothing when a team that didn’t live up to its potential all year can get on a hot streak and render all this effort meaningless.

I used to waste my time doing this in the margins during Physiology class. Now, I get paid to do it. In retrospect, it was my Biology degree that was the waste of time.

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:18:27 +0000

miz, what do you think we need to do to “fix” this and everything else in sports?

By: mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin'

mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin' — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:16:55 +0000

lisk…does it ever occur to you that you’re wasting your time with this nonsense? all this research, all this work…all for setting a bracket that’s just as controversial as the BCS only for it to mean nothing when a team that didn’t live up to its potential all year can get on a hot streak and render all this effort meaningless.

*GASP*

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:16:48 +0000

lisk…does it ever occur to you that you’re wasting your time with this nonsense? all this research, all this work…all for setting a bracket that’s just as controversial as the BCS only for it to mean nothing when a team that didn’t live up to its potential all year can get on a hot streak and render all this effort meaningless.

seriously, you’re in fucking hawaii!

By: MP

MP — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:16:17 +0000

My buddy went to Hungary for work and found a bag of weed in his jacket pocket when he got home. Which means he took it through security/customs. Twice.

By: SouvenirCity

SouvenirCity — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:12:12 +0000

Nick Watney’s RPI is drastically affected by his choice of putter.

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:11:33 +0000

How would you go about taking weed to Hawaii? Just assume you can score some out there?

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:09:45 +0000

I saw a bracket post and thought we’d be talking Accenture Match Play!!!

By: SouvenirCity

SouvenirCity — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:09:31 +0000

Spencer is SO HIGH right now.

By: spencer096

spencer096 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:08:08 +0000

By: Jay V Of Considerable Influence

Jay V Of Considerable Influence — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:05:49 +0000

What if Murray State didn’t lose that game? Then what kind of pickle is the committee in? #2 seed?

I think an undefeated Murray was headed for a #3. My guess if they don’t lose again is a #5, but Lisk’s prediction of a #6 wouldn’t surprise me.

By: BFFredo

BFFredo — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:04:57 +0000

1) the final at-larges will be #12 seeds once the conference tourney results roll in and “shrink the bubble”
2) having a 12/5 matchup where the game is close to a pick em isn’t all that uncommon. It happens a lot. I’m not sure the last one where a 12 has been favored, but it happens, or at least having a line with 1 or 2 happens.

And isn’t that the ultimate work of the Committee – to set the most even field of 64/68 possible?

By: KingGrizz

KingGrizz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:02:06 +0000

Those comments are embarrassing — most of them would have been laughed out of the post