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Thanks to X kicking some major ass, RealtimeRpi today has us number one conference rpi (there's only one Independent, NJIT, so we can just get rid of that)...

1 Independents 0.5993
2 Big East 0.5891
3 Big 12 0.5870
4 Atlantic Coast 0.5737
5 Pacific-12 0.5717
6 Atlantic 10 0.5699
7 Big Ten 0.5538
8 Southeastern 0.5500
9 American Athletic 0.5474
10 Mountain West 0.5409
11 Colonial Athletic 0.5158
12 Big West 0.5114
13 Summit 0.5096
14 Horizon League 0.5092
15 Mid-American 0.5076
16 Missouri Valley 0.4940

1 Xavier
5 Villanova
18 Providence
33 Creighton
66 Seton Hall
97 Butler
162 St. John's
169 Marquette
175 DePaul
186 Georgetown

Any bets on how long it will take for stever20 to come up with two million reasons why this is too early and how Dayton and the A10 actually will have a higher RPI and television rating by the time it actually counts?

whiteandblue77 wrote:Thanks to X kicking some major ass, RealtimeRpi today has us number one conference rpi (there's only one Independent, NJIT, so we can just get rid of that)...

1 Independents 0.5993
2 Big East 0.5891
3 Big 12 0.5870
4 Atlantic Coast 0.5737
5 Pacific-12 0.5717
6 Atlantic 10 0.5699
7 Big Ten 0.5538
8 Southeastern 0.5500
9 American Athletic 0.5474
10 Mountain West 0.5409
11 Colonial Athletic 0.5158
12 Big West 0.5114
13 Summit 0.5096
14 Horizon League 0.5092
15 Mid-American 0.5076
16 Missouri Valley 0.4940

1 Xavier
5 Villanova
18 Providence
33 Creighton
66 Seton Hall
97 Butler
162 St. John's
169 Marquette
175 DePaul
186 Georgetown

Any bets on how long it will take for stever20 to come up with two million reasons why this is too early and how Dayton and the A10 actually will have a higher RPI and television rating by the time it actually counts?

There are NO independent teams, shows how much of a GARBAGE site that is.

going into tonight, BE is #2.
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2016/conferencerpi

I'm more interested in learning the truth about the Big East's start, not this #1 RPI business.

i thought NJIT joined a conference and there werent any indies left

Edrick wrote:I'm more interested in learning the truth about the Big East's start, not this #1 RPI business.

The only "truth" to that thread is that stever20 is a TROLL and needs to be banned, blocked, batted away like his flyers will forever be from the Big East Conference thanks to his passive aggressive haunting of this board.

whiteandblue77 wrote:

Edrick wrote:I'm more interested in learning the truth about the Big East's start, not this #1 RPI business.

The only "truth" to that thread is that stever20 is a TROLL and needs to be banned, blocked, batted away like his flyers will forever be from the Big East Conference thanks to his passive aggressive haunting of this board.

First of all, I am fairly certain Stever isn't a Dayton fan. Secondly, you can't be so sensitive about posters who take a different perspective than you. The conference is doing well, we all know that. If Stever doesn't share most peoples enthusism so what? He brings a lot of interesting statistical information, and does some time consuming digging to get it. To me, trolling is when people try to kick you when you're down and make you feel worse. For the most part our teams are doing just fine. I find most of the UD posters interesting, and respectful for the most part, save one or two. And Stever is also complimentary at times. Lighten up, it's just a message board for people discussing sports, not Nazi Germany.

I just want to know where this BS came out that I'm a Dayton fan..... Never been a Dayton fan, never been to a Dayton game, never will go to a Dayton game...

I've been to several sites, and where whiteandblue77 dug up this info is by far the worst site. NJIT is still listed as an Independent. Also, the way they do their conference RPI is not the way it's calculated. They lazily calculate it based off of the average of all 10 teams RPI's. Sorry but that's not how you calculate conference RPI. Now, there was a time tonight where the Big East WAS #1 in the real conference RPI. But then the Grambling RPI bomb hit with Marquette, and that was that. BE still #2, even after the Creighton home loss tonight.

I would never support someone like Stever being banned but I am 100% in support of him being called on the carpet With each not-so-subtle jab against the BE, in his blatant attempt to troll. And hoops for all his "expert data digging" he pulls crap like saying that "the BE is not elite like the other top conferences b/c of their sub .500 record vs top 25 teams" without showing that their winning % in such games is actually as good or better than every other conf in the nation. Additionally he tries to claim that he is not biased when comparing the BE and the AAC, yet does not disclose that he is a moderator of an AAC message board. Weak. At least Dayton fans come on here wearing no masks.

So until he admits to the true motivation behind his posts, I will continue to call him out when he plays his little games and encourage others to do likewise. I don't mind hearing the opinions of non-BE fans but at least be man enough to admit who you are and who you support when you post.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:I would never support someone like Stever being banned but I am 100% in support of him being called on the carpet With each not-so-subtle jab against the BE, in his blatant attempt to troll. And hoops for all his "expert data digging" he pulls crap like saying that "the BE is not elite like the other top conferences b/c of their sub .500 record vs top 25 teams" without showing that their winning % in such games is actually as good or better than every other conf in the nation. Additionally he tries to claim that he is not biased when comparing the BE and the AAC, yet does not disclose that he is a moderator of an AAC message board. Weak. At least Dayton fans come on here wearing no masks.

So until he admits to the true motivation behind his posts, I will continue to call him out when he plays his little games and encourage others to do likewise. I don't mind hearing the opinions of non-BE fans but at least be man enough to admit who you are and who you support when you post.

Every once in a while I like Stever's posts but the majority of the time they just seem disingenuous because he refers as himself as a Big East fan. As we've seen with some of the Dayton and VCU posters over the years, it's okay to be a fan of a non BE team and post here as long as you are respectful. In fact I think a lot of those guys are pretty well liked.