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The rating percentage index, commonly known as the RPI, is a quantity used to rank sports teams based upon a team's wins and losses and its strength of schedule.It is one of the sports rating systems by which NCAA basketball, baseball, softball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and volleyball teams are ranked.
The strength of the conference largely depends on the number of NFL players the conference produces. For instance, from 1992 to 2011, of 1,874 college athletes who entered the NFL, roughly 31% came from the SEC compared to only 0.64% from the MAC-EAST conference. [4]
Strength of schedule refers to the quality of a team's opponents. A win against an inferior opponent is usually seen less favorably than a win against a superior opponent. Often teams in the same league, who are compared against each other for championship or playoff consideration, have not played the same opponents.
A look around the American Athletic Conference at the potential strength of nonconference schedules for each of the 13 men’s basketball teams for this upcoming season.
The league should lead college basketball in teams selected, as many as nine, a reward for its season-long dominance. ... Indiana State is on the bubble because of its poor strength of schedule ...
After more than two decades, the Big Ten/ACC Challenge ended this year
The Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings are a series of predictive ratings of men's college basketball teams published free-of-charge online by Ken Pomeroy. They were first published in 2003. [1] The sports rating system is based on the Pythagorean expectation, though it has some adjustments. [2]
The men's college basketball weekend features five showdowns of ranked teams across the Big Ten and SEC. A breakdown of the matchups.