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#78
#78
The "bad loss" (RPI over 100) teams we play twice are aTm and Auburn. Bad loss teams we play once are @Alabama, South Carolina at home, and Georgia at home. We have to sweep those seven games, and probably @Mississippi State, or we will have another loss that the committee will look at like UTEP.

If we get those eight, then we will make the tournament with any five wins out of (Vandy twice, Mizzou twice, Florida twice, @Kentucky, @ LSU, Arkansas at home, Ole Miss at home). Totally doable. For every loss on the first list, we probably have to move the number of wins on the second list up by 2 to keep our RPI in the 50s or higher.

Most likely road - we eat 7 of the 8 cream puffs with a slip-up somewhere that causes this website to go nuclear, but we also sweep Vandy, split Mizzou, split Fla, and beat Ark and Ole Miss at home to go 13-5 and we take the SECT 3/4 seed. Our first SECT game is versus the Auburn/aTm/MissSt survivor, which we win, and our second round game versus Ark/Mo is then for NCAA seeding (7/8 or 9/10).
 
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#79
#79
PagingDrVol said:
The "bad loss" (RPI over 100) teams we play twice are aTm and Auburn. Bad loss teams we play once are @Alabama, South Carolina at home, and Georgia at home. We have to sweep those seven games, and probably @Mississippi State, or we will have another loss that the committee will look at like UTEP.

If we get those eight, then we will make the tournament with any five wins out of (Vandy twice, Mizzou twice, Florida twice, @Kentucky, @ LSU, Arkansas at home, Ole Miss at home). Totally doable. For every loss on the first list, we probably have to move the number of wins on the second list up by 2 to keep our RPI in the 50s or higher.

Most likely road - we eat 7 of the 8 cream puffs with a slip-up somewhere that causes this website to go nuclear, but we also sweep Vandy, split Mizzou, split Fla, and beat Ark and Ole Miss at home to go 13-5 and we take the SECT 3/4 seed. Our first SECT game is versus the Auburn/aTm/MissSt survivor, which we win, and our second round game versus Ark/Mo is then for NCAA seeding (7/8 or 9/10).
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How long did you work on that?
 
#81
#81
Current RPI per ESPN 64

Wins (RPI 1-50)
(25) Xavier

Wins (RPI 51-100)
(51) Virginia
(70) Wake Forest

Wins (RPI 101-150)
(137) Morehead State

Losses (RPI 1-50)
(16) WSU
(25) Xavier

Losses (RPI 51-100)
(68) NCST

Losses (RPI 101-150)
(142) UTEP
 
#84
#84
PagingDrVol said:
About 6 minutes today, but I am constantly updating a computer simulation I use, so let's call it 15 to be fair.
:crazy:
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Just curious. did you build your simulator or find it somewhere?
Was a time when I could do stuff like that. Too old now.
 
#86
#86
calban said:
Yep. Ive tried it a couple of times but my ADD kicks in and I'm back to watching porn half way thru.
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Bahaha well have fun with that. My news years resolution this year is to quit. It's some bad stuff bro.
 
#91
#91
calban said:
Just curious. did you build your simulator or find it somewhere?
Was a time when I could do stuff like that. Too old now.
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Both, sort of. I reapplied one of my work tools to this new problem. Keeps me sharp and I get to use it on the clock!
:pimp_2:
 
#93
#93
bleedingTNorange said:
This is why freaking out about the RPI so early was pointless. We win at LSU and that number may break into the 30s.
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I know you weren't addressing me, but I couldn't give a damn about rpi at this point of the season, any year. Best to look at it the last couple weeks before selection is my preference.
 
#94
#94
MphsBlues said:
I know you weren't addressing me, but I couldn't give a damn about rpi at this point of the season, any year. Best to look at it the last couple weeks before selection is my preference.
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Once we get into conference play a week or two it's fine. It won't move around a whole lot and the picture will become clearer, this early in the season it can jump a lot either direction.
 
#96
#96
bleedingTNorange said:
Once we get into conference play a week or two it's fine. It won't move around a whole lot and the picture will become clearer, this early in the season it can jump a lot either direction.
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Each game will have an exponentially less "jumpy" impact on RPI as we pass (about) the 68% mark of the season; adjustments after that will slow at an increasing rate because most of the data will be "in the can". ((Think of it like its harder to change someone's mind about something as they uncover more and more evidence that they understand/believe/trust. ))

It'll be harder and harder to change the computer's mind after we play our Alabama/Vandy/SC stretch the first week of Feb. After that, our RPI will stabilize within a 6-9 rank range unless we go way hot or way cold. In fact, after our game vs Georgia on 2/18, it'll be hard to move it much at all, unless we (or the teams 3-5 spaces above and below us) go undefeated or winless... We should know after that night where we basically stand for the tournament, other than potential committee penalties for losing at Auburn on 3/5 (our last chance for a death blow) - or the committee doing something different than ever before (like violating the 50 RPI principle).
 
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#98
1985Vols said:
Really? A National Championship ( at any level) is quite an accomplishment. In addition, his overall winning % was among the top 5 in college basketball. He had won over 300 games. I don't think any of those could be referred to as "obscure". IMO, we will never be able to hire a coach as good as Bruce Pearl is so why not " re-hire" him while he is available?
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As has been pointed out about 100 times now, we didn't have to beat out anyone else to get him. So whether you want to call him "obscure" or not is semantics. He wasn't a highly sought after coach.
 
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