re: South Alabama edge LSU 79-75 in OT

Just checked, and our RPI right now is 53. That's not bad at all. Hoping we can keep raising it! The selection committee puts so much damn emphasis on it...

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That win by Coastal over clemson definitely helped us to start this season.

Question for South of South or anyone in the know.

In College basketball, is your RPI determined by the quality of teams you play , Regardless of wins or losses against a top 25 or top 10 team ?

If you play 10 games verus Top 15 ranked teams but only win 2 out of the 10 games is your RPI higher than some team who only plays 5 top 15 ranked teams but wins 4 out of 5 against that level of competetion ?

Could you get rewarded for playing a killer schedule but end up only winning 14 games overall verus someone who wins 22 games but no top 15 teams ?

Thanks.

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31 mins till tip off and this place is empty

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it is the night before thanksgiving. most of the students went home, and i'm sure most other people are preparing for the festivities tomorrow.

i wasn't expecting a big crowd for this game.

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The current and commonly used formula for determining the RPI of a college basketball team at any given time is as follows.

RPI = (WP * 0.25) + (OWP * 0.50) + (OOWP * 0.25)

where WP is Winning Percentage, OWP is Opponents' Winning Percentage and OOWP is Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage.

The WP is calculated by taking a team's wins divided by the number of games it has played (i.e. wins plus losses).

For Division 1 NCAA Men's basketball, the WP factor of the RPI was updated in 2004 to account for differences in home, away, and neutral games. A home win now counts as 0.6 win, while a road win counts as 1.4 wins. Inversely, a home loss equals 1.4 losses, while a road loss counts as 0.6 loss. A neutral game counts as 1 win or 1 loss. This change was based on statistical data that consistently showed home teams in Division I basketball winning about two-thirds of the time.[2] Note that this location adjustment applies only to the WP factor and not the OWP and OOWP factors. Only games against Division 1 teams are included for all RPI factors. As an example, if a team loses to Duke at home, beats them away, and then loses to Cincinnati away, their record would be 1-2. Considering the weighted aspect of the WP, their winning percentage is 1.4 / (1.4 + 1.4 + 0.6) = 0.4117

The OWP is calculated by taking the average of the WP's for each of the team's opponents with the requirement that all games against the team in question are removed from the calculation. Continuing from the example above, assume Duke has played one other game and lost, while Cincinnati has played two other teams and won. The team in question has played Duke twice and therefore must be counted twice. Thus the OWP of the team is (0/1 + 0/1 + 2/2)/ 3 (number of opponents - Duke, Duke, Cincinnati). OWP = 0.3333

The OOWP is calculated by taking the average of each Opponent's OWP. Note that the team in question is part of the team's OOWP. In fact, the most re-occurring opponent of your opponents is team in question.

Continuing the example above, a team has played Duke twice and Cincinnati once. Duke has played one other game and lost, while Cincinnati has played two other games and won. Next, for simplicity, assume none of the unnamed teams has played any other games.

The OOWP is calculated as (Duke's OWP + Duke's OWP + Cincinnati's OWP ) / 3.

Duke has played and beat the team in question (which, excluding the games against Duke, only lost to Cincinnati), lost to the team in question (excluding Duke, only lost to Cincinnati, and lost one other game (excluding Duke, this team has no WP). Duke's OWP is (0/1 + 0/1) / 2 = 0.0000.

Cincinnati has played the team in question (excluding Cincinnati, they went 1-1 vs. Duke) and won versus two other opponents each of which have no WP when games versus Cincinnati are excluded. Cincinnati's OWP is (1/2) / 1 = 0.5000.

For the team in question, the OOWP is thus (0.0000 + 0.0000 + 0.5000) / 3 = 0.1667

For the team in question, the RPI can now be calculated:

RPI = (WP * 0.25) + (OWP * 0.50) + (OOWP * 0.25)

Plugging in numbers from the above example gives you

RPI = (0.4117 * 0.25) + (0.3333 * 0.50) + (0.1667 * 0.25) = 0.3113

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Anyway to watch or listen online?

I can't keep up with the score in the game thread tonight so someone else can start it if they want.

Here's some free live audio since it seems like there is no ESPN3.

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les gonna feel all big leagued since hawthorne is doing the basketball game

Hopefully Storm doesnt Bosh it tonight and go 0-11 again,