NIU at number 2!

http://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-basketball...hree-after

1 Akron (14) 14 1
2 Northern Illinois 39 3
3 Ohio 60 5
4 Toledo 65 2
5 Kent State 67 4
6 Eastern Michigan 80 7
7 Ball State 89 6
8 Buffalo 97 8
9 Central Michigan 128 9
10 Bowling Green 137 10
11 Western Michigan 152 11
12 Miami 166 12


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On a sidenote, I put together a quick and dirty index for power rankings. Here are my power rankings through Saturday's games. These power rankings do not look at wins and losses, only defensive and offensive performance, and there is an SOS correction for the team stats (http://godawgz.com/MAC_bball_index.htm)

1 NIU 0.756
2 EMU 0.720
3 Kent St 0.718
4 Buffalo 0.649
5 Toledo 0.647
6 Ohio 0.638
7 CMU 0.608
8 Akron 0.601
9 Ball St 0.548
10 WMU 0.544
11 Miami-OH 0.539
12 BGSU 0.494

Seems a little crazy I suppose to have Akron 8, so I thought I would just erase this entire thing because it was spitting out crap, but I think I am going to run it weekly (each Sunday or Monday) given success I had when retroactively running it for last year

Since it only took 2 mins, I poured in last year's team stats and came up with these end of year power rankings using my ranking system

1. Buffalo .776 2 Won tourney
2. CMU .752 1 Lost in Finals
3. Akron .654 7 Lost in Semifinals
4. Toledo .651 4 Lost in Semifinals
5. EMU .611 8 Lost in Quarterfinals
6. Kent .593 3 Lost in Quarterfinals
7. BGSU .577 5 Lost in 2nd Round
8. WMU .548 6 Lost in 2nd Round
9. Ohio .528 11 Lost in 1st Round
10. NIU .518 10 Lost in 1st Round
11. Miami-OH 508 9 Lost in 1st Round
12. Ball St. .503 12 Lost in 1st Round

Next to the actual score from my ranking is the seed of that team in the MAC tourney. Look at how this scheme perfectly stratified each team's performance in the tourney compared to the seeds. For example, my scheme would have shown Akron and EMU to be better than their seed, and also correctly projected Buffalo as the top team.

Anyone going to Vegas better takes this with you , sure winner! haha