Wednesday, October 06, 2004
secrecy = bad
My enthusiasm about the NCAA Selection Committee’s decision to assign a higher RPI value to road wins than home wins and road losses than home losses is only tempered by the secrecy surrounding the formula for the “adjusted” RPI that will be available to the committee come decision time (along with the original, home-road neutral, RPI).While the regular RPI the committee uses is technically a secret, there are enough math geeks out there who have figured out the basics of the formula that those rankings are essentially public knowledge.
Calling Ken Pomeroy. Calling all statisticians (e.g. Joe Lunardi) who share my enthusiasm for college basketball. Calling all sources within the NCAA Selection Committee.
I want to know the formula for the “adjusted” RPI. Come March, I will desperately want to know the formula.
Attention bloggers! We have five months to crack the code.
