ESPN's BPI ranking has us at 45. It projects us to be 52. Pretty big difference in relation to our RPI.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bpi/_/page/2/view/bpi
BPI explained
http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/...record-what-are-they-and-how-are-they-derived
BPI is a predictive rating system for college basketball that's designed to measure team strength and project performance going forward. In the simplest sense, BPI is a power rating that can be used to determine how much better one team is than another. If Las Vegas sports books ever published the power rankings they use to set their betting lines, they would likely look similar to BPI.
RPI has been the go-to system for the NCAA selection committee because of its simplicity, but it fails to capture opponents’ true strength, margin of victory or other predictive factors relating to the difficulty of the game. BPI accounts for all of those factors and more.
It’s important to note that BPI is not a predictor of which teams will be in the NCAA Tournament (that’s what Joe Lunardi is for) or even the ones that deserve to be in the Big Dance (that’s what Strength of Record is for). BPI is best-used to determine a team’s chance to win individual games or group of games during the season.....
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bpi/_/page/2/view/bpi
BPI explained
http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/...record-what-are-they-and-how-are-they-derived
BPI is a predictive rating system for college basketball that's designed to measure team strength and project performance going forward. In the simplest sense, BPI is a power rating that can be used to determine how much better one team is than another. If Las Vegas sports books ever published the power rankings they use to set their betting lines, they would likely look similar to BPI.
RPI has been the go-to system for the NCAA selection committee because of its simplicity, but it fails to capture opponents’ true strength, margin of victory or other predictive factors relating to the difficulty of the game. BPI accounts for all of those factors and more.
It’s important to note that BPI is not a predictor of which teams will be in the NCAA Tournament (that’s what Joe Lunardi is for) or even the ones that deserve to be in the Big Dance (that’s what Strength of Record is for). BPI is best-used to determine a team’s chance to win individual games or group of games during the season.....
