Wednesday, February 21, 2007

A Masking Exercise

I'm neither the first to do this, nor the best. Not to mention, there's plenty of basketball to be played before Selection Sunday. However, it's important to begin masking teams so that the name of the school and the reputation it carries doesn't affect this year's resume.

In this masking exercise, we look at three resumes of teams who are firmly on the bubble. How would you rank the teams based on the criteria presented?

[RPI data collected using kenpom.com]

Team 1
Team RPI: 45
Conf RPI: 13
Record: 21-7
Conference Record: 13-3
SOS: 97
Non-Conf SOS: 38
Road/Neutral Rec: 7-5
Rec v. top 50: 3-2
Rec v. top 100: 2-3
Loss v. 101 & lower: 2; lost to #111, #299
Last 10: 9-1

Team 2
Team RPI: 43
Conf RPI: 4
Record: 19-9
Conference Record: 7-6
SOS: 24
Non-Conf SOS: 59
Road/Neutral Rec: 6-6
Rec v. top 50: 3-8
Rec v. top 100: 2-1
Loss v. 101 & lower: none
Last 10: 6-4

Team 3
Team RPI: 53
Conf RPI: 5
Record: 20-7
Conference Record: 8-6
SOS: 100
Non-Conf SOS: 272
Road/Neutral Rec: 7-6
Rec v. top 50: 2-5
Rec v. top 100: 2-1
Loss v. 101 & lower: 1; lost to #166
Last 10: 6-4

2 comments:

Sum said...

1. Team 2
2. Team 1
3. Team 3

Anonymous said...

Team 1
Team 2
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Team 3

I was shocked when I checked who the teams were