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A Bit More about RPI's

Publication Date: September 18, 2001

A Few Things I've Wondered About

This one's going to be a bit short, but it'll pay off in the long run. That's because I spent my baseball time this week going over the numbers in the official NCAA RPI report for 2001. It was released a couple of weeks ago and has made its way into the press, and I actually managed to get a copy this time. Many thanks to the kind soul who passed a copy along; I'll keep his name quiet so we can pretend there's some intrigue at work here, since the NCAA occasionally makes noises about keeping some things private. I don't know of an online source for it for free, although Baseball America apparently has a copy in their subscriber's section.

Having spent that time didn't produce all that much that any but the most hardcore of you would be interested in, but it did mean that next year I should be able to come very close to duplicating the exact numbers. I may go back and re-run past years for posterity, since there's nothing magic about the numbers I have out there now. I was actually fairly close already; most of the places where I thought I was off were actually a case of looking at the wrong point in the season for comparison. A few high points (some of these will make more sense if you've read the official RPI document):

If you are, of course, hardcore enough to want more details, let me know, and I'll see what else I can dig up, but that's about it.

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