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Friday, January 21, 2005
RPI Rants and Other News (Bracket City Blog)
By Drew Barnette
RPI href=/profile//> RANTS:
-In href=/profile//> case href=/profile//> you've href=/profile//> been href=/profile//> on href=/profile//> Mars href=/profile//> or href=/profile//> somewhere href=/profile//> just href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> far href=/profile//> away href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> missed href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> announcement, href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> all, href=/profile//> welcome href=/profile//> back. href=/profile//> Secondly, href=/profile//> there href=/profile//> has href=/profile//> been href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> rather href=/profile//> significant href=/profile//> change href=/profile//> made href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> standard href=/profile//> RPI href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> year. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> 25-50-25 href=/profile//> portion href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> still href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> same, href=/profile//> but href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> home href=/profile//> win href=/profile//> now href=/profile//> counts href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> 0.6 href=/profile//> wins, href=/profile//> whereas href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> road href=/profile//> win href=/profile//> counts href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> 1.4 href=/profile//> wins. href=/profile//> In href=/profile//> other href=/profile//> words, href=/profile//> if href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> like href=/profile//> Kansas href=/profile//> wins href=/profile//> their href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> ten href=/profile//> games href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> home, href=/profile//> it href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> only href=/profile//> computed href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> are href=/profile//> 6-0 href=/profile//> instead href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> 10-0. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> logic href=/profile//> for href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> home href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> wins href=/profile//> close href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> 2/3rds href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> time. href=/profile//> Although href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> true, href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> very href=/profile//> misleading href=/profile//> statistic. href=/profile//> For href=/profile//> example, href=/profile//> many href=/profile//> out href=/profile//> there href=/profile//> like href=/profile//> Duke, href=/profile//> Syracuse, href=/profile//> Georgetown, href=/profile//> etc href=/profile//> who href=/profile//> schedule href=/profile//> nine href=/profile//> or href=/profile//> ten href=/profile//> cupcakes href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> home. href=/profile//> (not href=/profile//> meaning href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> single href=/profile//> them href=/profile//> out href=/profile//> because href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> lot href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> do href=/profile//> it, href=/profile//> but href=/profile//> just href=/profile//> using href=/profile//> them href=/profile//> as href=/profile//> examples) href=/profile//> They href=/profile//> win href=/profile//> just href=/profile//> about href=/profile//> all href=/profile//> these href=/profile//> games href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> would href=/profile//> win href=/profile//> these href=/profile//> games href=/profile//> even href=/profile//> if href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> were href=/profile//> playing href=/profile//> them href=/profile//> on href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> road. href=/profile//> I href=/profile//> am href=/profile//> not href=/profile//> disputing href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> home href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> have href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> advantage. href=/profile//> I href=/profile//> just href=/profile//> don't href=/profile//> think href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> competitive href=/profile//> games, href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> advantage href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> 0.6:1.4 href=/profile//> ratio. href=/profile//>
The href=/profile//> second href=/profile//> thing href=/profile//> I href=/profile//> don't href=/profile//> like href=/profile//> about href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> adjustment href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> although href=/profile//> road href=/profile//> wins href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> road href=/profile//> records href=/profile//> were href=/profile//> never href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> part href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> RPI href=/profile//> before, href=/profile//> they href=/profile//> were href=/profile//> still href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> major href=/profile//> part href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> selection href=/profile//> process. href=/profile//> Last href=/profile//> year, href=/profile//> Florida href=/profile//> State href=/profile//> did href=/profile//> not href=/profile//> get href=/profile//> into href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> NCAA href=/profile//> tournament href=/profile//> and | |
