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Post by kiyoat on Nov 4, 2019 8:26:38 GMT -6
Nov 4 update: RPI - Team --- (Massey) 38---USD------29---USD ---------------------------- 93--Denver----81--Denver ---------------------------- 157-Omaha--- 140-Omaha 172-NDSU----172-PFW 182-PFW------184-NDSU --------------------------- 263-UND------258-UND 275-ORU------261-ORU 290-SDSU-----277-SDSU 301-WIU------287-WIU Not a lot of movement in either poll, but the Yotes and Pios continue to push upward. NDSU's schedule was tough, with gives them an automatic RPI boost. Although Omaha is 2 matches back from PFW and Denver in the standings, I'd much rather play the Dons than the Mavs again in the tournament. Omaha is peaking, and will be a tough out right now.
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Post by kiyoat on Nov 11, 2019 11:50:18 GMT -6
Nov 11 update: RPI - Team --- (Massey) 39---USD------28---USD 86--Denver--------------- ----------------82--Denver ---------------------------- 151-Omaha--- 138-Omaha 165-NDSU----169-PFW 183-PFW------192-NDSU --------------------------- 264-UND------258-UND 277-ORU------263-ORU 291-SDSU----280-SDSU 304-WIU------289-WIU Denver is moving up in RPI, but not into at-large territory. We seem to have hit the RPI wall. We have stayed at 38-40 for a while. That is squarely on the bubble, but I think that we would get strong consideration with our W/L record and lack of bad losses. Better if we just win the tournament, of course.
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Post by kiyoat on Nov 20, 2019 8:19:58 GMT -6
So, .... I've posted a bit on VolleyTalk, the massive (and very busy) message board for Volleyball. If you like amateur number-crunching and stats and RPI and schedule analysis, look no further. Some of the folks that post there should be ESPN VB analysts. Like, they should be coming up with their own metric to replace the RPI in volleyball.
Anyway, after posting there a bit to get a feel for the Yotes' chances of an at-large this year, ... I was presented with a mountain of data that points to the fact that "Top-50 wins" is pretty critical to be considered for an at-large in VB. The precedent is pretty strong.
If you look at Denver's situation last year, their season was almost identical to ours in many ways but one: They had a Top-50 win over St. Mary's. So if Iowa would have just won a few more matches in the Big Ten, we probably would be fine, in other words. They only won three matches in-conference, and now have an RPI of 92. Wyoming (who Iowa beat) is our highest-RPI win at 69. Iowa State is currently the only top-50 team on our schedule at #30, but we lost that one.
So, it looks like we really need to not have an upset loss in the tournament.
This was a historically tough schedule for the Yotes, but in the future we will probably need to make it even tougher if we want to get at-large consideration. Basically just like the WBB team. I think after this year Coach W will have even more major programs looking to get us on the schedule.
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Post by kiyoat on Nov 20, 2019 8:49:06 GMT -6
Interesting Stat of the day:
In her sixth season as Head Coach at USD, Leanne Williamson has moved up to #4 in all-time Summit League wins (71), and there is only one active coach above her: Sheera Sirola, ORU HC since 2003 (seventeenth season). She could likely move into first with three or four more seasons.
By my calcs, she has also moved into: #6 in overall win% (.685, 124-57) #6 in league win% (.763, 71-22) #7 in overall win # (124)
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