[Rosiak's Blog] MU releases schedule

[Harrison]

MUDISH--

  "I'll stand by my argument that if MU is on the same seed line as three other BCS conference teams, all things considered, the committee is going to look at our OOC sked, "

sure they will and then they will lokk at the other teams and notice their OOC SOS's are basically indistinguishable.



Team A       Avg OOC opponent RPI    104
Team B       Avg OOC opponent RPI    115
Team C       Avg OOC opponent RPI    122
Team D       Avg OOC opponent RPI    136
Team E       Avg OOC opponent RPI    147
Team F       Avg OOC opponent RPI    159
Team G       Avg OOC opponent RPI    172
Team H       Avg OOC opponent RPI    185

as you said " assumptions were mad" and teams "were given rankings"  even if they were not OOC SOS is such a minute part of the eqaution it will make not difference.  Simply looking at your "concocted, assumptions" there is not a tremendous amount of difference whatsoever.

Do you pick the fly $#)% out of the pepper?

[DegenerateDish]

Harrison, seriously, are you insane? So you know, the assumptions, actually benefited Marquette in that analysis! If anything, Marquette's trend is probably worse than it shows. Marquette is Team H by the way.  In this analysis,they were helped greatly by Wisconsin's number 4 RPI last year. Wisconsin ain't finishing with a number 4 overall RPI this year bro. Since Duke plays Wisconsin, you could say they are affected by this too, but Duke is Team B. So the trend won't affect them as much. Team G (NC St) and Marquette don't have a huge difference, I'll actually give you credit for that. Team F (Georgetown) is even semi-comparable. After that, well, if you can't do the math at this point, I don't know what to tell you.

Go ahead, keep arguing, you still have given zero hard evidence/data/analysis to back anything up. You're like a 12 year old kid who keeps arguing with his brother just because....well, just because. It's comical.

Believe what you want man. You say stupid things, I at least give you intelligent responses. The beauty of an internet message board is any idiot who can log on and type (or in your case, kinda/sorta type) can say whatever they want and argue all day long. God bless ya.

[Marquette84]

It's one thing to predict that OOC RPI is a big factor in seeding.

But it's another to actually look at the impact.  Looking at last years' top six seeds, poor OOC records were hardly enough to keep them from getting high seeds.  Teams like Florida, Oregon, Washington State, Texas A&M, Georgetown, and Kansas all received very high seeds, despite not-so-stellar SOS rankings.

Meanwhile, you have teams like Missouri State (OOC SoS of 56), Bradley (15), Drexel (8), App State (4) passed over and left out of the tournament completely.

I think the conclusion is that if you take care of business, you'll be rewarded with a high seed regardless of your non-conference SOS.

And a strong non-conference SOS isn't going to save you if you don't. 

#1 FL:  159
#2 Wisconsin 71
#3 Oregon:  233
#4 Maryland: 40
#5 Butler: 27
#6: ND: 309

#1 UNC: 7
#2 Georgetown: 129
#3 Wash st.:  310
#4 Texas:  183
#5 USC: 181
#6: vanderbilt: 130

#1: OSU:  72
#2 Memphis 22
#3 TAMU:  141
#4 Virginina:  175
#5 Tennessee: 5
#6 UL:  145

#1 Kansas:  114
#2 UCLA:  3
#3 Pitt:  23'
#4 SIU:  45
#5 VTech: 76
#6 Duke: 10

[Harrison]

"the assumptions halped MU"

Again laughable...again the whole thing does not matter as myself and everyone else has shown and stated. 

also how does a FGCU automatically being ranked #300 help MU.  Sure maybe UW will not be 4 but other schools may move .  Maybe they will move down
as history shows as other posters have shown as Mu84 just showed , OOc SOS may matter probably about 1% of the toal.  you are amking a mountain out of a molehill.

using Mu84's chart and your theory how can maryland possibly be a 4 seed when wash state with a310 OOC SOS which is almost the worst you could possibly have and oregon at233 end up as 3 seeds.

you are making a mountain out of a molehill.

Meanwhile your poster school Drexel at OOC SOS 15 gets left out.  Appalacian state At #4 gets left.  Call me insane, call the commitee insane!!