Warren Nolan RPI and SOS (5/4)

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http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/rpi

Warren Nolan RPI Top 25 (5/4)
1. Dallas Baptist
2. Texas A&M
3. Miami (FL)
4. UCLA
5. Texas Christian
6. LSU
7. Florida State
8. Illinois
9. Florida
10. Missouri State
11. Florida Atlantic
12. Vanderbilt
13. Oklahoma State
14. Auburn
15. UC-Santa Barbara
16. Louisville
17. Bradley
18. USC
19. Ohio State
20. Radford
21. Houston
22. Coastal Carolina
23. Iowa
24. North Carolina
25. College of Charleston
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27. Nebraska
40. Michigan State
49. Maryland
51. Indiana
68. Michigan
145. Northwestern
153. Minnesota
162. Penn State
198. Rutgers
199. Purdue

http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2015/conferencerpi

Conference RPI (5/4)
1. SEC
2. ACC
3. American Athletic Conference
4. Pac-12
5. Big 12
6. Missouri Valley
7. Big Ten
8. Conference USA
9. Big West
10. Big South

Strength of Schedule
1. Mississippi
2. Miami (FL)
3. Auburn
4. UCLA
5. Alabama
6. Florida State
7. Virginia Tech
8. North Carolina
9. Kentucky
10. Utah
11. Mississippi State
12. Oklahoma State
13. Tennessee
14. Georgia Tech
15. South Florida
16. Coastal Carolina
17. Dallas Baptist
18. Arkansas
19. Arizona State
20. Cal State-Fullerton
21. Fresno State
22. Baylor
23. Vanderbilt
24. East Carolina
25. Florida
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37. Nebraska
40. Ohio State
42. Northwestern
45. Indiana
67. Michigan State
78. Penn State
82. Purdue
91. Rutgers
92. Iowa
97. Maryland
98. Minnesota
123. Michigan
150. Illinois

 

[icu81222]

Wasn't there a thread about RPI last week? I recall someone giving scenario's where even a loss to NU left UN with a top 10 (or so) RPI?

I mentioned how Iowa's 1 loss to NU tanked their RPI and was told it wouldn't happen to UN. I doubted it but the explanation sounded convincing. How can there be so much misinformation out there in this day and age?

How far does it drop now just having to play Purdue?

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

It's a shame that one loss to a low RPI team can tank it so much, can really be the difference between regional or not for some teams. It shouldn't be like that in my opinion.

Michigan State for example, they were 29 in the RPI before their Sunday loss to Purdue. After the loss their RPI sits at 40.

 

[kaz36]

It also didn't help that the 5 teams that NU played non con series against went 4-11 last weekend.

 

[k9_r]

It's a shame that one loss to a low RPI team can tank it so much, can really be the difference between regional or not for some teams. It shouldn't be like that in my opinion.

Michigan State for example, they were 29 in the RPI before their Sunday loss to Purdue. After the loss their RPI sits at 40.

Bad things happened to MSU Sunday. There are three components to RPI and they took a hit in the 1st one and two hits in the 2nd one. Those two are 3/4th of RPI, right?

A home loss is bad - counts as 1.3 loss in RPI counting. Pretty much wiped out their two Fri/Sat wins. Came away with a .519 weekend record as RPI counts it. Their record before Friday was .614 so this weekend dragged on that.

Next, their SOS took a major hit. Two different problems hit their SOS. The 1st is Purdue's awful W/L record got added to MSU's body of opponents. That's a hit. If you beat them, boosting your own W/L, you can balance off that hit but MSU lost, so...

And then, their SOS took a 2nd hit as their 25 prior opponents went 10 - 15 on Sunday. That's .400, so the field went .600 vs MSU's opponents.

It all adds up.

 

[k9_r]

Wasn't there a thread about RPI last week? I recall someone giving scenario's where even a loss to NU left UN with a top 10 (or so) RPI?

I mentioned how Iowa's 1 loss to NU tanked their RPI and was told it wouldn't happen to UN. I doubted it but the explanation sounded convincing. How can there be so much misinformation out there in this day and age?

How far does it drop now just having to play Purdue?

Can you find that thread? Nebraska's best RPI was 12 and there was no way to hang onto that going into the NW series. It was a fluke and was going to come back down on it's own. Had we swept NW, our RPI would be low 20s right now. Not far from our well earned 20 RPI before the spike.

If we sweep Purdue, we should be able to hang about where we are, all other things being equal.