Big Ten teams: Average Quality of Wins and Losses

[cjbfbp]

Below is a table of the average RPI quality of each conference team's wins and losses (Source: Basketball State). As you can see, by this measure, Minnesota and Nebraska are very similar. Illinois and Indiana are virtually identical. Wisconsin has by far the highest average quality of its wins among the conference and Northwestern and Purdue are clearly the lowest. There's not nearly as much variation among average quality of teams' losses. Iowa has the highest average quality of losses followed closely by Michigan State. What's somewhat interesting about our scheduled second round opponent is that, although they've lost only half as many and have the most impressive set of wins in the conference, their average rating of opponents in losses is lower than ours. Minnesota calculated RPI rank by this source currently stands at 47.

Team AvgRPIwin AvgRPIloss
Illinois 153 53
Indiana 157 54
Iowa 156 27
Michigan 110 47
Michigan St 118 29
Minnesota 134 45
Nebraska 133 52
Northwest 177 54
Ohio St 110 58
Penn St 155 63
Purdue 167 60
Wisconsin 94 56

 

[Dr.Don]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

 

[cjbfbp]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

Thanks for your gracious response! Boy, there sure are a lot of sweet dispositions at this site.

 

[topos]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

You have over 16,000 posts and I would say about 90% of them mean nothing and don't contribute anything to the college basketball realm.

I think this is a cool statistic. I have analyzed the numbers 100 different ways to try and find where we stand in comparison to our bubble foes. this is something new. Thanks for posting!

 

[Winnipegopher]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

That says more about you than the thread. It is a neat way to look at things.

 

[Section201]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

Doc you need to hit refresh. Your crap is getting really old.

 

[Dr.Don]

Doc you need to hit refresh. Your crap is getting really old.

I just said it meant nothing to me. I do not get to have an opinion? Sheesh!!!

 

[WanderingGopher]

I'm not sure why the "average quality" of wins or losses matters, when all of the teams have different numbers of wins and losses. If I'm the best team in the league and you're the worst, I imagine my "average quality" of wins might possibly end up worse than yours because my average is dragged down by beating the likes of you, while in the rare cases you do win it's always somebody above you.

(Basically, this seems like extracting a part of the RPI formula, but is misleading because it's only PART of the formula).

 

[maroonedinCA]

I just said it meant nothing to me. I do not get to have an opinion? Sheesh!!!

Is Section201 not entitled to the opinion that you're a hack that doesn't even attempt to contribute anything?

 

[Section201]

I just said it meant nothing to me. I do not get to have an opinion? Sheesh!!!

If it meant nothing to you why pipe in and piss on the OP? Just asking.

 

[hyaluronic]

I rather enjoy our resident doctor.

That said, I think the numbers would be better viewed if you put them in order of the sum of the avg RPI wins and RPI losses.

 

[wisbadger303]

Ok, meant nothing to me. senseless thread.

This is the classic "pot meet kettle" post