Thursday, February 24, 2005

Who has the higher strength of schedule?

Team A

Northeastern
Winthrop
Cal State Fullerton
Davidson

Team B

Illinois
Arizona
Longwood
North Carolina

The answer:

Team A - The SOS component according to the RPI (based on today's records) is .016 greater for Team A which would indicate that Team B's schedule is not only worse, but a .016 difference between teams can knock the SOS ranking by a factor of 30 or greater depending on where in the rankings the .016 difference falls.

Not fair is it.

*Note: The SOS is 2/3 your opponent's records and 1/3 your opponent's opponent's records.

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