According to Pomeroy, beating the 90th-ranked team on the road is about as difficult as beating the 50th-best team on a neutral floor, which is roughly as difficult as beating the 20th-best team on one’s home floor.

So he has come up with Tier A and Tier B games. These tiers are adjusted for home court. Tier A represents games against Top 50 quality foes, and Tier B represents games against Top 51-100 quality foes.

Here are the records of various American teams against these Tiers.

Tier A
SMU 3-3
Houston 3-3
UConn 5-6
Temple 4-7
Tulsa 3-7
Cincy 2-6
Memphis 0-7

Tier A + B
SMU 7-5
Houston 4-4
Temple 7-8
UConn 6-7
Cincy 5-8
Tulsa 5-9
Memphis 3-8

(02-28-2016 10:30 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  According to Pomeroy, beating the 90th-ranked team on the road is about as difficult as beating the 50th-best team on a neutral floor, which is roughly as difficult as beating the 20th-best team on one’s home floor.

So he has come up with Tier A and Tier B games. These tiers are adjusted for home court. Tier A represents games against Top 50 quality foes, and Tier B represents games against Top 51-100 quality foes.

Here are the records of various American teams against these Tiers.

Tier A
SMU 3-3
Houston 3-3
UConn 5-6
Temple 4-7
Tulsa 3-7
Cincy 2-6
Memphis 0-7

Tier A + B
SMU 7-5
Houston 4-4
Temple 7-8
UConn 6-7
Cincy 5-8
Tulsa 5-9
Memphis 3-8

So everyone has better records against bad teams?

Uh ok

Pomeroy's point is that the RPI Nitty Gritty sheet which has a Record vs Top 50 and Record vs Top 100 categories DOES NOT take home court into account and is therefore flawed. And so he created his "location-adjusted" Tiers.

But you would know that if you read the link.

(02-28-2016 10:30 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  According to Pomeroy, beating the 90th-ranked team on the road is about as difficult as beating the 50th-best team on a neutral floor, which is roughly as difficult as beating the 20th-best team on one’s home floor.

So he has come up with Tier A and Tier B games. These tiers are adjusted for home court. Tier A represents games against Top 50 quality foes, and Tier B represents games against Top 51-100 quality foes.

Here are the records of various American teams against these Tiers.

Tier A
SMU 3-3
Houston 3-3
UConn 5-6
Temple 4-7
Tulsa 3-7
Cincy 2-6
Memphis 0-7

Tier A + B
SMU 7-5
Houston 4-4
Temple 7-8
UConn 6-7
Cincy 5-8
Tulsa 5-9
Memphis 3-8

So that is it. Convincing evidence that this year Houston should get the AAC At Large if it does not win the auto bid.

Congrats.

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Not really we only played 8 teams in the top 100. Temple almost doubled us up. I look at that and hope our schedule gets tougher next year.