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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
exactly as I thought. Of course, you will never get the bigwigs to talk about this.
You should forward this to one of the espn writers like Andy Katz.
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Actually, it is possible that the RPI is biased toward non-power conferences and the seeding committee straightened things out (For example I think the RPI overcompensates for road wins and if nonpower play more road games ...):
Look at what happens if we do the same thing with the massey rankings:
Code:
. reg seed mseed power;
Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 48
-------------+------------------------------ F( 2, 45) = 43.96
Model | 378.358437 2 189.179219 Prob > F = 0.0000
Residual | 193.641563 45 4.30314583 R-squared = 0.6615
-------------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.6464
Total | 572 47 12.1702128 Root MSE = 2.0744
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seed | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
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mseed | .777461 .093222 8.34 0.000 .5897022 .9652198
power | -.2265484 .7286263 -0.31 0.757 -1.694077 1.24098
_cons | 1.558384 1.000078 1.56 0.126 -.4558772 3.572645
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