One can always start a good debate by talking about polls or computer generated ratings or rankings.

Well here goes:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc1112.htm

This is the Sagarins for basketball.

How does it stack up to our estimation of the rank ordering of MAC teams.

I'd say pretty damn good.

It has all but one East team (Miami) at the top and the West teams down at the...

I doubt this computer-generated rankings could be improved upon.

(02-09-2012 10:33 AM)emu steve Wrote:  One can always start a good debate by talking about polls or computer generated ratings or rankings.

Well here goes:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc1112.htm

This is the Sagarins for basketball.

How does it stack up to our estimation of the rank ordering of MAC teams.

I'd say pretty damn good.

It has all but one East team (Miami) at the top and the West teams down at the...

I doubt this computer-generated rankings could be improved upon.

it's spot on for the top five seeds in the MAC tournament if the season ended today. pretty good, i'd say, too.

Official RPI Rankings

We've stopped using those ratings at Western. Going with the much more accurate R.I.P. ratings instead.

Thankfully there's no Bottom 10 for Basketball. (At least I hope not.) Otherwise the dreaded "Michigan Directional" would be on it.

Well, take heart, CMU. You're ahead of us in the R.I.P. ratings.

(02-09-2012 04:51 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  We've stopped using those ratings at Western. Going with the much more accurate R.I.P. ratings instead.

I eye balled the two lists, RPI and Sagarins, and didn't notice much difference.

R.I.P. ratings for the MAC West?

(02-09-2012 04:53 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote:  Thankfully there's no Bottom 10 for Basketball. (At least I hope not.) Otherwise the dreaded "Michigan Directional" would be on it.

ESPN started one this season, but it's been mostly full of jokes each week, with a few bottom-dwellers: Bottom 10

(02-09-2012 05:38 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(02-09-2012 04:51 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  We've stopped using those ratings at Western. Going with the much more accurate R.I.P. ratings instead.

I eye balled the two lists, RPI and Sagarins, and didn't notice much difference.

R.I.P. ratings for the MAC West?

Perhaps a better reference might be from Monty Python.

"Bring out your dead!!"

"Wait!......I'm not dead yet."