GAMES OF INTEREST (1.8.19)

[loca2874]

The only game yesterday was Prairie View vs Alcorn State. Prairie View won 57-54


Today’s games

AAC GAMES

NONE PLAYING



REST OF GOI

Texas (44) vs Oklahoma State (74)
Southern Illinois (124) vs Drake (148)


NET Rankings Through January 6

Houston (4) No Change
UCF (31) No Change
Cincinnati (34) No Change
Temple (62) No Change
Memphis (73) No Change
Tulsa (75) Up 1
South Fl (92) Down 1
UCONN (111) Down 1
SMU (122) Down 1
Wichita St (133) No Change
ECU (228) No Change
Tulane (296) Up 8

 

[URedskin54]

Should I interpret our NET improvement as Alcorn State is so bad that when they lose a close game at home our SOS actually improves?

 

[mcane]

my guess is shuffling around the 75 number, not Alcorn

Too many 250+ teams on the home schedule this year

 

[URedskin54]

For the stat guys, has anyone successfully reverse engineered the NET yet?

 

[Gmoney4WW]

The good: OSU up by 10 on Texas, around half time.

The Bad and the Ugly: Drake skunking SIU by around 20 at half time

 

[goldenhurricane2]

Oklahoma State holds on to beat Texas.

 

[loca2874]

The good: OSU up by 10 on Texas, around half time.

The Bad and the Ugly: Drake skunking SIU by around 20 at half time

Drake wins by 12

 

[ctt8410]

For the stat guys, has anyone successfully reverse engineered the NET yet?

It's a little tricky because they only release ordinal rankings without continuous values.

Kevin Whitaker came up with the weighting below:



Bart Torvick has a NET forecast on his site (barttorvick.com), but I'm not sure how he's tweaked the input since this tweet:

 

[URedskin54]

Still not all that close it seems. I'm sure someone will eventually write a program that successfully picks it apart, but the lack of transparency by the ncaa is pretty crazy

 

[I.I.]

Good job ctt8410 with your preseason prediction. Let's hope it holds. I wonder the most about the Cincy at Tulsa and TU at WSU.
My preseason starters were Igbanu, Jeffries, Taplin, Joiner, and either Scott or Horne. I missed out on Korita but any of those three could start.
We needed an instant impact from a newcomer. Hasn't come yet.....still waiting.............