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These are the RPI rankings for the 2 conferences in USA BBB#8 after week 4. RPI is not my formula, it's the one widely used by college sports in the US and it very heavily weights strength of schedule. I don't believe it's the mechanical rating number we're looking for, but here are the results:

West RPI:
1 0.5938 Bridge City Trolls
2 0.5677 San Antonio Heat
3 0.5573 Tampa Bay Greyhounds
4 0.5469 Omaha Outlaws
5 0.5417 Philadelphia Knights
6 0.5417 L.A. Looters
7 0.5000 Portland Persecution
8 0.4948 Windy City Bears
9 0.4844 George West Longhorns
10 0.4844 Baton Rouge Bengal Tigers
11 0.4792 Northwest Arkansas Naturals
12 0.4688 Phoenix Blue Jays
13 0.4531 Minnesota Eagles
14 0.4427 Las Vegas Lightning
15 0.4375 Quack Attack
16 0.4062 Kansas City Incinerators

East RPI:
1 0.5990 Pittsburgh Steel
2 0.5677 Bayou Bandits
3 0.5521 Huntsville Rockets
4 0.5469 Maryland Predators
5 0.5208 Toronto Turtles
6 0.5208 Coffee Town Bootleggers
7 0.5104 Battle Creek Bombers
8 0.5000 Orlando Bone Crushers
9 0.5000 Jacksonville Gators
10 0.4948 Washington Bayhawks
11 0.4844 Paper Street Space Monkeys
12 0.4792 Rochester Dragons
13 0.4792 Cleveland Dawg Pound
14 0.4375 Yancy Street Grimm Reapers
15 0.4271 Hartford Hustlers
16 0.3802 Florida BeachDogZ

I'll give you the top 6 in the east. It looks like this.

1) Toronto Turltes
2) Maryland Predators
3) Pittsburgh Steel
4) Bayou Bandits
5) Coffee Town Bootleggers
6) Huntsville Rockets

This is RPI, not a poll ranking. It's a purely mathematical formula, and it's often heavily criticized for weighting strength of schedule far too heavily. I just thought it'd be fun to post it, since lots of real-life sports use it in some capacity.

But we play round robin... How can there be a strength of schedule? It basically takes into account our one non-conference game?

No, it's based on SOS of the year to date--at the end of week 15, the SOS will be similar for everyone. Before that, someone who's played a couple 4-0 teams and a couple 2-2 teams will rank higher than someone who's played a couple 0-4 teams and a couple 2-2 teams.

we are 1-3 and ranked 7th? thats crazy

It's not a ranking of best/worst teams, it's an RPI. You don't look at it to see who's best and worst, you look at it alongside other info to get a feel for team's power (e.g. a 1-3 team who's highly ranked should be considered a lot more dangerous than a 1-3 team with a low RPI).

It based of this
LA Looters player
3-1 San Antonio
1-3 Minnesota
3-1 Las Veags
2-2 George West

9-7 record of team we played. Even if we are 0-4 our RPI would be the same based off the team we played.

One thing to keep in mind if you see teams with few wins ranked relatively high, by losing to most of your opponents you inflate your strength of schedule by adding wins to most of your opponents while good teams deflate their strength of schedule by adding losses to their opponent's record. This is especially the case early in the season before teams have played enough to really sort out the teams that are good and the teams that had easy early schedules.

Originally posted by j0shle0
I'll give you the top 6 in the east. It looks like this.

1) Toronto Turltes
2) Maryland Predators
3) Pittsburgh Steel
4) Bayou Bandits
5) Coffee Town Bootleggers
6) Huntsville Rockets


I don't think you give Huntsville enough credit. But basically at the end of the season, any of those teams are capable of winning the championship

Originally posted by Moo45
Originally posted by j0shle0

I'll give you the top 6 in the east. It looks like this.

1) Toronto Turltes
2) Maryland Predators
3) Pittsburgh Steel
4) Bayou Bandits
5) Coffee Town Bootleggers
6) Huntsville Rockets


I don't think you give Huntsville enough credit. But basically at the end of the season, any of those teams are capable of winning the championship

Yeah, I agree with that statement. I know we have several players that are unboosted, and I'm sure other teams do as well.

Originally posted by rsb014
One thing to keep in mind if you see teams with few wins ranked relatively high, by losing to most of your opponents you inflate your strength of schedule by adding wins to most of your opponents while good teams deflate their strength of schedule by adding losses to their opponent's record. This is especially the case early in the season before teams have played enough to really sort out the teams that are good and the teams that had easy early schedules.


Games that you played in are supposed to be removed from the SoS calculations, but I think I'm only properly removing from the 2nd-order SoS and not the primary. I'll double-check this before the next game.

I'd put the east more like:

1)Toronto
2)Pittsburgh
3)Maryland
4)Bayou
5)Huntsville
6)Bone Crushers

The Bootleggers haven't beat any good teams yet and have a loss to the Bone Crushers so I can't see how they wouldn't make the list. I'd like to see Maryland play one of the 5 other above teams to really justify 3rd place, but you can't argue with 0 losses. Toronto's win over Pittsburgh was huge in my book since I don't think either team is likely very likely to finish lower than 12-4, probably 13-3 or better.

Yep, the Bone Crushers are good. If they get their O rolling they'll own.
Maryland got unlucky last year too and this year they're even better.
Thats a "any given Sunday" list there RSB

Yeah, the top 4 are especially dangerous. Any one of those four teams could win the conference.