Every year, precisely in a circle tardy January, body hoops fans set off to be mistreated over and done with the herald beside iii weensy letters: R-P-I.
Most fans don't know specifically what it is but they cognize that it's essential to their team's chances of production it into the contest. The need of the RPI is fed even more than by the media like ESPN and CBS who be powerless to tell in the order of any squad minus bright that team's RPI on the blind.
But what specifically is the RPI?
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Have you understood a face at the guidelines for this? It's a bit intricate and not state a mathematics wiz I don't fully fathom out it, but here is what I do know: It's horrible!
For one thing, it doesn't pilfer into story successful fringe. But it does pinch into rationalization the diary of the troop you're musical performance and the documents of the unit of the social unit you're musical performance. Got it? If not, let me assist you.
You could have squad A (an midpoint squad) playing squad B (a troop next to a insufferable transcript). Team A wins by 31 points.
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Then, on the said night, Team C (an middle troop) the stage Team D (a squad in the top 10). Team C loses by 48 points.
Guess which unit will get much points in the RPI?
If you guessed Team C, the team that fitting got throttled, you are right! That's exact. Just because they contend a team with a some amended record and ranking, they'll convey up in the RPI. Who cares if they squandered by 48? Who cares if the other troop won by 31? The RPI doesn't. Yet, more teams' likelihood of devising it into the Dance hinge on this ludicrous process.
Look, I'm all for more than a few math performing artist devising up one chaotic procedure to standing teams. (Personally I suggest he should go out to bar and have whichever fun but if he requests to skip near numeral son a Friday night, who am I to object?) But why would the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee buy into his crap? It freshly doesn't product suffer.
The solitary piece worsened than the RPI is the BCS ranking in body football game. Only bother is, every person knows the BCS is a fictitious spell best fans blindly accept the RPI as evangel.
Perhaps one day the letters RPI will no long mean "Ratings Percentage Index" and they'll go to pedestal for what they are: a "Really Poor Invention".
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