Gophers current #8 in the RPI

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Gophers currently with 2 (Top 100) wins.

Montana - 69
Richmond - 99
 

When does RPI generally become meaningful again? Looking at that list it clearly means nothing right now.
 


GophersOnTheRise said:
When does RPI generally become meaningful again? Looking at that list it clearly means nothing right now.
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By late December its takes pretty good shape. All the in-season tournaments are done and conference play is about to start.

November and December are about positioning. For a team like the Gophers (likely bubble bound), wanna' be positioned no worse than the #50-60 range heading into Big Ten play. Lots of quality-win opportunities from then on out.
 



SelectionSunday said:
By late December its takes pretty good shape. All the in-season tournaments are done and conference play is about to start.

November and December are about positioning. For a team like the Gophers (likely bubble bound), wanna' be positioned no worse than the #50-60 range heading into Big Ten play. Lots of quality-win opportunities from then on out.
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Thanks. That's kinda what I was thinking, but wasn't sure.
 


Richmond beat Belmont who just knocked off North Carolina. Every little bit helps!
 



Our RPI will be high even though our non conference is pretty weak outside of the Maui invitational.

Quick question, does RPI only matter for the games you have played or are upcoming games included.
 






never really paid much attention to how the RPI is tabulated--assumed it meant the better your opponents, the better your RPI. so just to pick a team- The Wisconsin Badgers have beaten St John's, Florida and UW-Green Bay (picked to win the Horizon League). How does that put them at 18- behind our Lehigh, Montana, Richmond schedule?
 

Angry said:
Richmond beat Belmont who just knocked off North Carolina. Every little bit helps!
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The real question is, will #1asdgafoihjzxonaew be continuously posting threads chronicling every one of our opponents' wins throughout the season? Whatever happened to him?
 

Minnesconsin fan said:
never really paid much attention to how the RPI is tabulated--assumed it meant the better your opponents, the better your RPI. so just to pick a team- The Wisconsin Badgers have beaten St John's, Florida and UW-Green Bay (picked to win the Horizon League). How does that put them at 18- behind our Lehigh, Montana, Richmond schedule?
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That doesn't really make any sense at all... Where is Fran Frachilla (guessed on spelling) when you need him
 



I believe the GH Gestapo has the list...if you're wondering. Doc...you must have that list somewhere! ;)

MinneStoa said:
By this metric, I could think of dozens of bannable posters. Shoot, I might even be on that list
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Not to jinx it...but Syracuse is struggling at home against St. Francis (NY).
 


Minnesconsin fan said:
never really paid much attention to how the RPI is tabulated--assumed it meant the better your opponents, the better your RPI. so just to pick a team- The Wisconsin Badgers have beaten St John's, Florida and UW-Green Bay (picked to win the Horizon League). How does that put them at 18- behind our Lehigh, Montana, Richmond schedule?
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Wisconsin is ranked 19 which is pretty good considering it's still a limited sample size.

Gophers have a stronger strength of schedule. 0.8021 vs the Badgers SOS of 0.7413.
Half the RPI is SOS.
with another 25% being opponents SOS.

Bottom line is, non-conference schedule is important because once everyone starts playing conference games, your conference RPI at that point is 0.500 the rest of the way.
So if you want a good SOS and OSOS, you need to get that during non-conference play because it will only draw closer to 0.500 as conference play takes over.

Then the only difference is whether you played a good team like Indiana / Ohio State twice or Nortwestern twice during conference play to improve your SOS over 0.500 for conference play, but that change is minimal at that point.
 

Face The Facts said:
Wisconsin is ranked 19 which is pretty good considering it's still a limited sample size.

Gophers have a stronger strength of schedule. 0.8021 vs the Badgers SOS of 0.7413.
Half the RPI is SOS.
with another 25% being opponents SOS.

Bottom line is, non-conference schedule is important because once everyone starts playing conference games, your conference RPI at that point is 0.500 the rest of the way.
So if you want a good SOS and OSOS, you need to get that during non-conference play because it will only draw closer to 0.500 as conference play takes over.

Then the only difference is whether you played a good team like Indiana / Ohio State twice or Nortwestern twice during conference play to improve your SOS over 0.500 for conference play, but that change is minimal at that point.
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Not that simple. Not even close.
 

Gopher Warrior said:
Not that simple. Not even close.
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I'm not going to get into a pissing match about what the RPI formula is or isn't.
I didn't say it was simple, I gave about 6 sentences explaining the difference between WI and MN so far.
If you want the full details, I can copy a full wikipedia page to help break it down with real life examples.

If I said something wrong, then point out specifically what it was and we can agree on it or not.
My accuracy in predicting tournament teams is proven with much of that coming from using RPI numbers.
 


I think it is because we beat Richmond who beat Belmont who beat North Carolina…Richmond is #31
 

Coastal Carolina sank our RPI.
We went from #6 to #26 by adding them to our schedule tonight.
 

We are now 5-0. We have dropped down to #65 in RPI.

There are three teams above us who are each 0-1 so far.
 

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