From ESPN’s Saturday morning Sportscenter: Home Team Winning Percentage in Conference Games 73.5% Big Ten 61.1% ACC 58.3% Big East 56.3% SEC 53.1% Big 12 52.4% PAC-10
Stat of the Day
RPI Graph Update-4
Wednesday night was disappointing on many fronts, not the least of which is the RPI calcs. With the new formula, home losses hurt much more than road losses and it shows in State’s drop down frightfully close to bubble territory: State’s RPI through 1/26 As predicted, GW fell out of the top-50 (to #55) giving […]
Stat of the Day – Large Margins
We are more than half way through the basketball season and I was reflecting today on how solid the year has been. I also was thinking about how “odd” some of the season felt and started contemplating the games on our schedule and found the following particularly interesting: Of the 18 games that NC State […]
STATEistically Notables
Saturday’s victory over Wake moves Herb Sendek a little closer to a .500 record against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. For his career at State, Sendek is + 9-13 overall vs the Demon Deacons + 6-13 vs Wake Forest in the regular season. + 5-6 vs Skip Prosser + 4-6 at home vs Wake Forest […]
RPI Graph Update
I changed my mind and decided to make a short entry whenever I update the RPI graph. State’s win on Saturday moved State to #26 in the RPI Ranking. (Real life is about interfere with my free time, so the updates may be sporadic for the next week or so.) 1/15/06 Update RPI Trivia for […]
More RPI Fun
Thanks to a thread started by grantwolf, I was able to graph State’s RPI ranking starting in early December. Obviously the important thing is where you finish, not where you start: Graph of 2006 RPI Ranking I’ll try to update the graph linked here though this blog entry won’t move to the top when I […]
A Look Back at the Bubble
Hopefully, NC State fans will view the bubble discussions for the NCAA tournament selection this year with mild curiosity instead of intense emotional interest. However, I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of trends could be detected from selections made in the recent past. According to any number of articles that are […]
RPI and the ACC
Now that we’ve seen what the RPI rankings of Final Four teams look like, let’s look to see how various ACC coaches have done with respect to the RPI rankings and head-to-head comparisons. Notes: – For simplicity, I will only look at those coaches who have taken their team to the NCAA tournament at least […]
RPI and the Final Four
To me, it was always intuitively obvious that a team’s record versus the RPI Top-50 was a key stat to use when evaluating a team or when evaluating a coach over time. Anyone can beat the Stetsons of the world (current RPI – 326), but it takes something more to beat good teams. However, some […]
Out-of-Conference Strength of Schedule
One of the sites that I use extensively during basketball season is kenpom.com. Ken Pomeroy calculates the RPI for every Div 1 basketball team and displays the information on his website. He updates the page daily throughout the basketball season and provides a lot of other interesting stats as well…such as breaking down where each […]
