Other scores - Week 5

onetouchfutbol wrote:Wow...was Boston College this good last year...or have they kind of come out of nowhere? It's impressive when schools put together strides or some good recruiting...

dwm wrote:"UNC drops to 7th in the RPI, BC goes to 2nd, we go back to 3rd"

—but still ahead of Stanford (who will presumably fall further by playing Hawaii) and still easily first in "Approx Strength."
So I say Stanford shows up on Saturday night as the challenger.

But can anyone tell me where the "Approx Strength" numbers come from?

Approx Strength
This column is an approximate representation of what the team contributes to each of its opponents’ RPIs. Call this team “Team A” and its opponent “Team B.” Then with the overall RPI formula for Team B being (Team B’s Element 1 + (2 x Team B’s Element 2) + Team B’s Element 3)/4, and with Team A’s Element 1 becoming, approximately, its contribution to Team B’s Element 2 and Team A’s Element 2 becoming its contribution to Team B’s Element 3, this column is calculated as ((2 x Team A’s Element 1) + Team A’s Element 2)/4 and represents approximately what Team A contributes as strength of schedule to Team B’s RPI. The number is “approx” strength because it does not delete from Team A’s Element 1 the results of the game against Team B – in other words, it is Team A’s winning record against all opponents rather than against opponents other than Team B (which is what the RPI formula calls for). Nevertheless, it gives a good approximation of what it means to Team B’s strength of schedule to have played Team A.

eProf wrote:Stanford up on Hawaii 8-0 in the 62nd minute, with shots being 27-1.

For some reason, Stanford has been putting in lots of subs.