oSuJeff97
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As for free throws, most of Forte's FT attempts are a result of the steals. He steals the ball, drives the floor and gets fouled, it's not like he is fouled driving the lane in the half court. You can't look at stats in a vacuum.
You obviously haven't watched any OSU games this year if you say this. Forte has been regularly driving to ball to the rim in the half court.
That's one reason why his 2-point FG attempts, as a percentage of total FG attempts, is nearly double this year what it has been the past two.
And it's funny that you think him averaging 2.7 steals per game is going to boost his FT rate to as high as it is. Because I can assure you that he's not going coast-to-coast on 100% of his steals, lol.
In the ranking that matters and is used by the committee OSU is ranked #53. And for a major conference program that is bad. Like anybody cares there are 300 scrub programs out there when only 35-40 of them are legitimate.
HA good one. You certainly got me there. But here's the thing. The pedestrian arithmetic used in the RPI is heavily weighted to the most important data set. When there are 300 teams with massive standard deviation in talent, who you beat and lost to is the holy grail. Not only what your opponents record, who did they beat to accumulate their record.
It weeds out the pretenders.
Your misunderstanding of RPI continues to be comical.
RPI isn't a power poll, meaning the #1 team is the "best" overall team. It's a measure of relative success against a schedule that is weighted by opponents' winning percentage. It doesn't take things into account like scoring margin or home/road splits. It doesn't even care WHO you beat... just your winning percentage weighted against your opponents' winning percentage (and their respective opponents' winning percentage).
For example, lets say you play 3 teams -- one is 3-0 and the other two are 0-3. Let's say you go 2-1 in those games. It wouldn't matter which two of those teams you beat, what the score was or where the game was played -- your RPI would be THE SAME.
That is why RPI isn't a "power poll", while other ratings, like KenPom and Sagarin, are.
It's also why it's ONE FACTOR that the committee uses.
It's also funny that you think the KenPom rankings don't have value. Yeah, a ranking that literally takes every single posession into consideration couldn't possibly have any value... :facepalm