Bye Bye RPI

[Hall2012]

Feels like it's been coming:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/the-ncaa-tournament-committee-will-select-and-seed-teams-using-a-new-ranking-system-after-killing-the-rpi/

[ArmyVet]

The NCAA announced Wednesday it has developed the NCAA Evaluation Tool, known as NET, to replace the RPI as the primary sorting tool for teams under consideration for the NCAA tournament.

The change is effective immediately; NET will be used instead of RPI for the 2018-19 season.

NET will take into account game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, offensive and defensive efficiency and the quality of wins and losses.

So how does the NET really differ from the RPI? Sounds awfully similar to me.

[Hall2012]

It's basically RPI with a little bit of KenPom factored in and given a shiny new name.

[Doge McDermott]

So come tourney time, the committee is going to rely on nothing but NET?

...I'll see myself out...

[ArmyVet]

It's basically RPI with a little bit of KenPom factored in and given a shiny new name.

My thought as well. So how long before we here the chants to get rid of the NET?

[stever20]

It's basically RPI with a little bit of KenPom factored in and given a shiny new name.

I think given that it's going to have MOV factored in at all is a huge difference.

The really interesting thing to wait to see about is what it would have done with Providence last year....

They were #32 in RPI. But in the composite rating they had last year- they were #46.17.

compare that to Penn St. They were #77 in RPI, but in the composite rating(which I think the NET will be much closer to)- they were #49.67. So would Penn St now be a lot closer to Providence in the selection process? That's a huge game changer.

[kayako]

It won't affect the Big East that much, but overall it sounds like a big improvement. A few things I like:

-Backed by Google
-Margin of victory capped at 10
-OT results always +1 for the winner -1 for the loser
-adjusted winning percentage rewarding road wins and punishing home losers
-takes into account efficiency numbers

[bmorex]

It won't affect the Big East that much, but overall it sounds like a big improvement. A few things I like:

-Backed by Google
-Margin of victory capped at 10
-OT results always +1 for the winner -1 for the loser
-adjusted winning percentage rewarding road wins and punishing home losers
-takes into account efficiency numbers

Margin of victory is way too low. Should be closer to 20-25.

[stever20]

It won't affect the Big East that much, but overall it sounds like a big improvement. A few things I like:

-Backed by Google
-Margin of victory capped at 10
-OT results always +1 for the winner -1 for the loser
-adjusted winning percentage rewarding road wins and punishing home losers
-takes into account efficiency numbers

It could impact the Big East some. Providence had some pretty poor advanced metrics. Games last year going forward like Belmont +1, Rider +4, Brown +5 in OT, and Stony Brook +2 would hurt them a lot in this new metric. Even in conference play- the 7 point DePaul win and the 4 and 5 point Georgetown wins would be killers. Close wins vs bad teams are going to hurt a lot more now than they ever used to. All those close wins will be a much larger negative than we've ever seen.

[stever20]

It won't affect the Big East that much, but overall it sounds like a big improvement. A few things I like:

-Backed by Google
-Margin of victory capped at 10
-OT results always +1 for the winner -1 for the loser
-adjusted winning percentage rewarding road wins and punishing home losers
-takes into account efficiency numbers

Margin of victory is way too low. Should be closer to 20-25.

I don't know about 20-25, but 15-20 seems to me to be the sweet spot....