At the end of OOC play

[BeKnighted]

9-3

RPI 11 (#2 in the B1G, although #1 is Illinois, so go figure)
SOS 14
1-3 v. RPI top 25
2-3 v. RPI top 50
4-3 v. RPI top 100

2-0 v. SEC
1-1 v. ACC
0-2 v. BEast
2-0 v. AAC
1-0 v. A-10

 

[ea_1]

More information about OOC performance this year compared to last year:

Points-for down a lot from median of 74.00 per game to 60.50. Little change in points-against from 55.00 per game to 51.00. Last year's OOC record was 9-2 and the modified Pythagorean predictor indicated that RU would go 14-4 or 15-3 in B1G play; the record was a somewhat disappointing 12-6. This season, based on the same model and assuming no data entry error, the prediction is for 12-6 or 13-5 in the conference. I really thought last season's team would be in the top three of the B1G last season. I do not know what to make of the B1G this year.

 

[sammybb]

BeKnighted which RPI list do you use? There are a few links out there.

From what you've posted, we had a pretty solid OOC schedule (4 teams in top 25, 5 in top 50, 7 in top 100). While no one is pleased about the losses to SHU, SJU, or FSU, none of them are "deal-breaker" losses like UMass turned out to be 2 years ago. Hard to quite tell how good the team is yet, but if they take care of business in the B10, March should once again be fun.

 

[sammybb]

Also an interesting note (since I'm sure this will come up at some point this season): But as of right now, our 3-pt stats are near identical to UConn's. (Yes they've played 4 fewer games than us, so their numbers will go up, but the percentages are about the same in number of mades vs attempts)

 

[BeKnighted]

BeKnighted which RPI list do you use? There are a few links out there.

From what you've posted, we had a pretty solid OOC schedule (4 teams in top 25, 5 in top 50, 7 in top 100). While no one is pleased about the losses to SHU, SJU, or FSU, none of them are "deal-breaker" losses like UMass turned out to be 2 years ago. Hard to quite tell how good the team is yet, but if they take care of business in the B10, March should once again be fun.

I took the RPI from WBB State.

By the way, here's last year's OOC

9-2

0-2 v. RPI top 25
1-2 v. RPI top 50
3-2 v. RPI top 100

(Also note 6 games v. RPI 100+ teams, including 4 v. RPI 200+ teams, compared to 5 games v. RPI 100+ teams, including 2 v. RPI 200+ teams, although that's not an entirely fair comparison because the season is less than half over.)

2-1 v. SEC
0-1 v. ACC
2-0 v. AAC
2-0 v. A-10

Edited because WBBState seems to have counted the B1G tournament games as OOC, so I needed to remove them.

 

[sammybb]

I'm looking at RealTime RPI right now (http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_161_Women.html) but the team played a very, very solid OOS schedule. Of the 12 games the team played, NINE were against teams in the RPI top 115 (only 3 of those were above 100). The team played only two teams ranked above 200: the SEC's Arkansas (which was a return game, plus this team made the NCAA 2nd round last year) and Savannah St, who also made the NCAA Tournament last year.

That all adds up to a very solid SOS of #22 heading into conference play (where as of now, only four teams are ranked outside the top 100, and none above 169).

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

I always thought I would see my first Pythagoras reference on an Ivy league message board... Very impressive...:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: