A good night for OU...re: a 3 seed in the NCAAs

[WTSooner]

Wouldn't Baylor have to be ranked ahead of us right now? Not saying I expect them to finish in front of us, but as of today they have a better SOS, better RPI, and fewer losses.

 

[stormspencer]

Wouldn't Baylor have to be ranked ahead of us right now? Not saying I expect them to finish in front of us, but as of today they have a better SOS, better RPI, and fewer losses.

The items you menioned above (RPI, SOS, fewer losses) are secondary in importance. The committee wants to know how your team performed against the best competition on your shcedule. We have 10 top 50 wins, Baylor has 5. We have 4 top 25 wins, Baylor has 3. Baylor only has 2 road/neutral wins against top 100 teams (WV and Memphis). OU has 5 road/nuetral wins against top 50 teams.

Those two items really differentiate Baylor and OU.

 

[WTSooner]

The items you menioned above (RPI, SOS, fewer losses) are secondary in importance. The committee wants to know how your team performed against the best competition on your shcedule. We have 10 top 50 wins, Baylor has 5. We have 4 top 25 wins, Baylor has 3. Baylor only has 2 road/neutral wins against top 100 teams (WV and Memphis). OU has 5 road/nuetral wins against top 50 teams.

Those two items really differentiate Baylor and OU.

RPI takes strengths of wins/losses into account. No reason to double dip if you ask me.

 

[scrybe]

RPI takes strengths of wins/losses into account. No reason to double dip if you ask me.

Not sure George Costanza would agree.

 

[Zimwillett]

RPI takes strengths of wins/losses into account. No reason to double dip if you ask me.

I think Seth Davis gives a pretty good explanation of this:

most of the times when the RPI is cited, it is presented as a team’s general ranking, as in “their RPI [rank] is 52.” It is more relevant to use the RPI to break down a team’s schedule the way the committee does it, which is to organize how a team did against the top 50 of the RPI, the top 100, the bottom 100, etcetera. When the committee discusses a team's profile, its RPI rank is barely noticeable and hardly discussed. The RPI discussion is just a starting point, not an endgame.

In other words, the committee looks at a lot more than just raw RPI and SOS numbers when evaluating teams. And I'm glad they do. The RPI, in particular, has a lot of holes (e.g. no accounting for margin of victory or location of games).

As a rule, the committee likes teams that prove, over the course of a season, that they can consistently win against tournament caliber teams, in any environment. OU has done that much better than Baylor.

 

[red recluse]

i don't care about seed.

omaha. houston. indy. that's the path we are playing for down the stretch.