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Photo by Dennis Nett at Syracuse.com. This past weekend was awfully good for the visitors…and since State was one of the road winners, I’m OK
[See the full post at: ACC Basketball Update (2/19)]Taking this back to the top…
Another great job of crunching and explaining the numbers…
Thanks! VaWolf…It all comes down to who wins and who loses the next two weeks…
While we’ll stay focused on the PACK and the ACC… it may be that the door the PACK goes thru to the Dance is opened by what some teams we don’t know do the next two weeks, not the other ACC teams…
VaWolf… you don’t have a short (3-4) list of those teams in your pocket, do you?
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!I only know of one, Miss State losing to Vandy supposedly hurt their chances quite a bit. It would have to be the bubble teams for the SEC and Big 10 or whatever they call themselves nowadays. Supposedly Pac 12 is terrible and the only teams going are the ones that are virtual locks. Hope for the best teams and ach mid major to win their conference tourneys, so it doesn’t bump a power 5 bubble team.
Temple had a chance to get back in the conversation yesterday and got crushed by UH. Nebraska also messed their britches against Illinois. Georgia, Baylor, and Texas all helped themselves quite a bit with their Saturday wins. getting some separation from Louisville and Syracuse is important for us imho. I know there isn’t any conference quota, but having a clear advantage over teams that have a lot of common opponents can’t hurt your chances if we get lumped in the last 10-15 teams looking for an at-large.
Good stuff as always Vawolf. I think 3-1 can have us feeling pretty good on selection Sunday. I seem to recall you calling out Louisville a few weeks ago. Since then, aside from one decent road win they have done nothing to help their cause. It would be great if we could go 4-0 down the stretch to really allow us to enjoy the ACC tournament.
I am worried about the BC game as a loss at home to them could really hurt our chances and I think they will be a tough match up for us.
I have been kind of surprised by the stubborn lagging of our RPI. In addition, our resume on kenpom and sagarin could be higher. If they were, I would feel more comfortable with a combination of 2 wins in our remaining 5. However, given our lack Top 45ish ranking in any of those, I think we need to win 3 of our next 5.
That’s not an impossible task. Since the 0-2 start, we have gone 8-4. Let’s just say 4 of those wins we’re against teams that won’t sniff the tournament….that leaves us 4-4 against some pretty good competition. We have one of those games left (@ GaTech) – but the 3 left are pretty much in the toss up category.
realtimerpi.com predicts us to sweep the last 4:
Current Record: 18-9 (8-6)
Current RPI Rank: 59
Current SOS Rank: 64Projected Regular Season Record: 22-9 (12-6)
Projected Regular Season RPI Rank: 44
Projected Regular Season SOS Rank: 65Also noteworthy, it predicts both UNC and Clemson to lose 2 more games, which would make State the #3 seed behind UVA and Duke entering the ACC tournament. Let’s hope their GAMER prediction system is spot on!
Went out to bracket matrix and we are in 70 / 77 brackets. This means we are tracking better than the previous week. (Good news!)
I looked at a couple of others that didn’t have us in and we were first four out in all of them.
I would take Lunardi’s bracket right now – 11 seed against #6 Texas A&M, opposite a dropping #3 Texas Tech/ #14 Belmont matchup.
realtimerpi.com predicts us to sweep the last 4:
Current Record: 18-9 (8-6)
Current RPI Rank: 59
Current SOS Rank: 64Projected Regular Season Record: 22-9 (12-6)
Projected Regular Season RPI Rank: 44
Projected Regular Season SOS Rank: 65Also noteworthy, it predicts both UNC and Clemson to lose 2 more games, which would make State the #3 seed behind UVA and Duke entering the ACC tournament. Let’s hope their GAMER prediction system is spot on!
By the way, if these predictions come true, this would be the best State MBB regular season since 1988-89 under Valvano. Really impressive in Keatts’ first season on the job.
Archie who?
By the way, if these predictions come true, this would be the best State MBB regular season since 1988-89 under Valvano. Really impressive in Keatts’ first season on the job.
Archie who?
Exactly. Of course as my grandmother used to say, “if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be a holiday.” There’s a lot of basketball left to be played.
You know there is some ball to be played but I couldn’t be more pleased. We saw early flashes with Sid, and heck even with Gott on that thrilling run his 1st season but honestly this has a fundamentally different feel to me and hey, I’ve been a fan since ’73 so I’ve seen some stuff.
Keatts is that mid-major up and comer had been hoping we could find (just like V).A kid was picking at me after we lost to unx the other day and I told him “we beat you in football, we split in men’s basketball, and our women swept yours, I’ll take that every year!”
A kid was picking at me after we lost to unx the other day and I told him “we beat you in football, we split in men’s basketball, and our women swept yours, I’ll take that every year!”
Don’t forget that Pack wrestling kicked the Hole’s all the way back to the hill.
this has a fundamentally different feel
In a word… “YES!”
While both had no where to go but Up… Gott, his first year, had more ‘talent’ with five than Keatts has with ten….
For the record, and hopefully the last time, Gott’s biggest ‘problems’ were across town, not in the gym, at least until they spilled over…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Not sure who winning or losing tonight will help us. ND win and they could move into the log jam Pack now sets in standings. And a Pack loss could even move ND past us if the committee goes with the sympathy Bonzie vote. And if Bonzie does come back, they could get hot again. A win by Canes keeps them ahead with us losing to them. A lot of games to come that will affect Pack. Just win baby, just win….
I thought when ND made their run, they had the look of a team that could make a Cinderella run. I still think they can win the ACC Tournament if Bonzie comes back.
I know the quadrants say pull for Miami, but I’d rather have them lose tonight.
“quadrants” is code for excuse/reason the NCAA does what it will do.
the NCAA has enough analytics/numbers which will skew the possibles
further into the probables in order to drive the TV $ ratings.
i’m a financial guy. the LIBOR was/is fixed. the VIX was/is fixed.
the NCAA Selection Committee acts “as if” it was fixed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/vix-manipulation-costs-investors-billions-whistle-blower-saysTwo many topics talking about the same thing today…
Moving this here…
Listen once you get below like 100 or so in the power ranking you’re pretty much splitting hairs aren’t you?
To expand this line of reasoning…you are splitting hairs between 5 and 10…and 20 and 35…and 40 to 60. What is the Vegas line if these teams played each other….a point?! (Many times in the contradictory direction!)
Said another way, popular rankings (RPI, coaches, AP poll, BPI) imply a linear relationship but as Goldenchain points out, this is not reality. In some ways the quadrant system reduces this issue because it cohorts wins/losses though that argument does not hold up because there is a circular reference and therefore a non-sequitur.
The only folks that have any business ranking teams are the Vegas odds-makers. Those quant ex-Wall Street guys that set the books are breathtakingly accurate. Hire them and call it a day…(although of course Vega loves these silly rankings which are used by dumb money bettors to inform opinions.)
Summing up…
1. No relationship is truly ‘linear’ in a mathematical sense…
2. Who has the time, the data set and the mathematically ability to define the curves? Which lead s to the old saying (before computers)…
3. Figures (numbers) don’t lie and Liars don’t figure… Which is total BS in today’s world…
4. A creative numbers guy can make the numbers say what he wants them to say… In fact, the MORE complicated something is explained, the greater the probability is that it’s hiding some sh$t (lies — i.e. cell phone bills, for one… ) … Occam would love the perversion here… Nevertheless…
5. Given two arguments about the same topic — one with numbers and a one without numbers… most people today will choose the argument with numbers…
Which is why the ‘Eye Test’ is required…
There’s ‘Elegant’ Math and ‘BS’ Math…
Unfortunately. to do the ‘Eye Test’… you have to know something about what you’re looking at…
Same could be said about what you see on the court and what the Ranking Numbers say…
And that’s all I need to say about that…
except..Playing with numbers is a lot of fun and can, at times and within boundaries, be quite useful…
POP!!!#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!VaWolf… you don’t have a short (3-4) list of those teams in your pocket, do you?
Sorry but no. But if I was going to put a list together, I would start with the teams between State and the burst point on the Dance Card list.
Then the next step would to identify the mid-majors that are currently leading those conferences that don’t have any other candidates for an at-large bid. The bubble teams don’t want an upset in these conference tournaments. (Those conferences that are only get one bid regardless don’t concern us.)
realtimerpi.com predicts us to sweep the last 4:
IIUC, this site is counting every game at greater than 50% probability of winning as a win. There are others than are both calculating a % chance of winning and then using that percentage to calculate final conference standings. Teamrankings.com is one such site.
Right now State’s predicted record is 10.2-7.8 and 5th place…which I’m pretty sure is State’s best predicted finish so far this year.
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/team/nc-state-wolfpack/projections
What the predictive algorithms are missing is the temporary effect an injury can have on future games. Just another reason to NOT use predictive algorithms like kenpom when extending NCAAT bids.
Using the NCAA’s numbers Miami moved up to 31 and ND fell to 68 after last night’s game. You can expect those to fluctate as everyone else plays their mid-week game.
I was disappointed that no posted the new Dance Card results. But then I was even more disappointed when I found that their web page hasn’t been updated for the weekend games. I wonder why.
Dance card updated for games through Monday. Pack at 41. They show a drop in Rpi too figured the old way.
http://www.unf.edu/~jcoleman/dance.htm
Rank — Team – Dance Card – Chance of Bid – RPI
41 — North Carolina St. – 4.6176 – 100.00% – 52
Today’s NCAA calcs has State at 55 after last nights win. That’s a new high water mark for the season, but will likely move one way or the other when everyone finishes their mid-week games.
To beat the 9-9 horse one more time….If you look how far ND dropped with a home loss, no intelligent person would believe that State could finish the regular season with 0-3 and still be a lock for the NCAAT.
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