[A10: 2019 OOC Results/Ratings]

22 hours ago, unclecarl said:

I don't know how often bracketologists update their info, but as of today the A10 has two bids; VCU shares a 12-spot with Xavier.  What you say about Syracuse-VCU comparison has vexed me for years.  I would hope that the Selection Committee is above such thinking, but I'd bet that in the back of their minds they're considering TV ratings.

BTW, I can't remember who pointed out the warrennolan.com site, but thank you, thank you, thank you.  Lots of NET-centric info there.  For God-only-knows-what reason, Sagarin isn't loading for me nowadays, so this alternative is most welcome.

FWIW, there are two predictions for the DUQ game:  The R1 says we lose by 3 and the ELO says we win by 4.

The NET rankings are updated daily. Score data is updated every 30 minutes.

[The OOC Review from da' Couch in Maryland]

26 minutes ago, slufanskip said:

So you are saying a Midwest team plays Florida in Jacksonville it shouldn't be a home game for Florida? It certainly more of a home game than a neutral game

I do believe that. I'm a Utah State fan. This year we actually played Florida in a neutral venue in Florida. It wasn't a short drive for them but they definitely had substantially more fans.

[The OOC Review from da' Couch in Maryland]

1 hour ago, Clock_Tower said:

IMO, location is probably the single biggest factor; however, doesn't the NCAA also factor in items such as:  selection of the officials, marketing/production rights of the game, etc.

I think it may just be up to the teams to decide. BYU is displaced from their arena for a week in December. They played UNLV in Salt Lake where the Jazz play. It's about 45 minutes away but it's included in their season tickets, marketed by them and utilizes their officials. This is considered a neutral game by the NCAA. Everything except the location should make it a home game for BYU but it isn't.

[The OOC Review from da' Couch in Maryland]

7 hours ago, HoosierPal said:

Well that is good news.  I stand corrected.  I will take the NCAA website over a third party.

Go to #60.  Also listed are the upcoming games, as they now stand. We have to do some damage on the road.

https://extra.ncaa.org/solutions/rpi/Stats Library/NET Team Sheets - Dec. 29, 2019.pdf

 

We have updated the game to an Away game because the NCAA has it classified as that but this does create some really strange scenarios as we've reviewed the NCAA data. Prior to today, all of the Home/Away/Neutral data came from ESPN and all of that data seemed to make sense. We found 12 situations where our records didn't match up with the NCAA though and reviewed each of them.

We found a team that played 3 games in an arena in their home town. 2 were considered neutral, 1 was considered home. No reasoning as to why they were classified that way, just that they were. 

There were also 3 or 4 situations where the game took place over 120 miles away from either teams arenas yet they were considered home games.

There was one scenario where a game took place in an arena within 50 miles of both schools playing. It was listed as a home game for the team that was further away.

In my opinion, a home game happens at the home arena of a team or at least within 20 miles of campus. I'm not sure what the NCAA considers a home/away/neutral game though based on the oddities listed above so we're just going with what they have from here on out.

[This team in the rankings]

12 minutes ago, juniorbill76 said:

Great. Now you just need to update to the Billikens logo that was introduced in 2015.

Done

[This team in the rankings]

On 12/19/2019 at 2:05 PM, RUBillsFan said:

I take it you haven't clicked the link.  The site has 5 options.  Q1 - 4 and non-DI.  They have Maryville was Q4 and actually give them a NET ranking (non DI teams aren't ranked).  They show our non-DI record as 0-0.

This has been fixed. We didn't realize that ESPN was switching teams around and the net ranking never got overwritten because they weren't D1. We are now flushing the cache before every import.