Warrior General Games

Alpha:
1 0.5750 South Yorkshire Stars
2 0.5625 Belfast Mafia
3 0.5400 Grim Reapers
4 0.5225 St. Louis Storm
5 0.5225 Amsterdam Arctic Blast
6 0.5175 Warsaw Knuckleheads
7 0.5125 Transylvania Bloodsuckers
8 0.5075 Dublin Drunken Monkeys
9 0.5075 Crimson and Cream Sooner Machine
10 0.4975 Basin City Blues
11 0.4825 Vatra Dornei Wraiths
12 0.4800 Oklahoma (U.S.A.) Outlaws
13 0.4625 Wrexham Maelor Brionnfhionn
14 0.4575 Kilkenny Cannibals
15 0.4575 Ithaca Space Munkees
16 0.3950 London Brawling Tommies

Zeta:
1 0.6275 Amsterdam Smugglers
2 0.6025 Antwerp Jewish Diamond Dealers
3 0.5725 Hamburg Parrots
4 0.5525 Cardiff Cobra's
5 0.5425 Konoha Hokages
6 0.5100 Vatican City Angels
7 0.5000 Malmo Dawgs
8 0.4925 Vienna Blood Sausages
9 0.4800 Istanbul Three Headed Pygmy Dragon
10 0.4650 Newcastle Nightmare
11 0.4625 Quebec Colored Trombones
12 0.4525 Athens Gators
13 0.4400 Dresden Bombers
14 0.4375 Coventry Thunder
15 0.4350 Chanhatten Knights
16 0.4275 Valencia Bats

Not sure what this means but being ahead of Quebec is awesome.

It's RPI. It's not a "which team is better" ranking, it's more a strength of schedule measure. If two teams have similar records it can be useful as one small metric to help figure out which is better.

Woohoo! Still not dead last!

I want to play better TEAMS... hate seeing the stars be under anyone.

Originally posted by TheDeparted21
I want to play better TEAMS... hate seeing the stars be under anyone.

Huh? Stars are at the top.

Originally posted by SantosLHalpar
Originally posted by TheDeparted21

I want to play better TEAMS... hate seeing the stars be under anyone.

Huh? Stars are at the top.

I believe he is referring about the Alpha RPI versus Zeta RPI? @ 0.575, the Stars would be ranked 3rd if they were in the Zeta conference.

They're at the top of the Alpha standings, but the Amsterdam Smugglers and the Jewish Diamond Dealers currently have a higher RPI.

Edit: beat me to it, tyranny.

Originally posted by TyrannyVaunt
Originally posted by SantosLHalpar

Originally posted by TheDeparted21


I want to play better TEAMS... hate seeing the stars be under anyone.

Huh? Stars are at the top.

I believe he is referring about the Alpha RPI versus Zeta RPI? @ 0.575, the Stars would be ranked 3rd if they were in the Zeta conference.

RPIs are conference-relative. You can't compare between the two.

The top Ivy League team could have a .700 and the bottom NFL team could have a .300--they're totally within-conference only numbers.

EDIT: after week 16 interconference play they will have a tiny amount of relevance between conferences.

Here's another set of RPI numbers, for USA Pro West:

1 0.5675 Minnesota Marauders
2 0.5600 San Antonio Saints
3 0.5525 Washington Extreme
4 0.5500 Denver Globetrotters
5 0.5500 Bourbon Street Bullies
6 0.5475 Golden State Athletics
7 0.5375 Tecmo SuperBowlers
8 0.5225 Dayton Brute Squad
9 0.4925 Detroit Dump Trucks
10 0.4875 Columbus Bucks
11 0.4725 Kailua Daggers
12 0.4600 San Jose Spartans
13 0.4375 Oakland Intimidators
14 0.4350 Flathead Just Go Krazy
15 0.4175 Dallas Destroyers
16 0.4100 Saginaw Supernovas

It makes no more sense to worry about having a lower RPI than the top in Zeta than it does to be psyched about being better than all of these teams--the numbers are completely relative to the conference.

We getting to the interesting matchups, I know Quebec had a tuff one in week 5 and next week we have a real challenge! So for the rest of the season we should really get to see who comes out on top.

So what is RPI? I am noe a big enough College Fan to truly know.

Ratings Percentage Index (RPI):

This is a re-creation of the Ratings Percentage Index for NCAA men's college basketball.
The basic RPI formula is 1/4*(Winning Percentage) + 1/2*(Opponents' Average Winning Percentage) + 1/4*(Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage)

The RPI is calculated by adding three parts.

Part I (25% of the formula): Team winning percentage. For the 2005 season, the NCAA added a bonus/penalty system, where each home win or road loss get multiplied by 0.6 in the winning percentage calculation. A home loss or road win is multiplied by 1.4. Neutral games count as 1.0. More on the effect of these changes can be found here.

Part II (50%): Average opponents’ winning percentage. To calculate this, you must calculate each opponent’s winning percentage individually and average those figures. This is NOT calculated from the opponents’ combined record. Games involving the team for whom we are calculating the RPI are ignored.

Part III (25%): Average opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage: Basically taking all of the opponents’ Part II values and averaging them.

Only games against other teams playing a mostly D1 schedule count when computing the RPI.

Here’s a simple example of how it’s calculated:

Team A has played two games and beat Team B and Team C.
Team B has a 1-1 record. Team B beat a team with a 2-1 record and lost to 2-0 Team A.
Team C has a 1-2 record. Team C beat a team with a 0-2 record, lost to a team with a 2-0 record, and lost to Team A.

So now let’s see how to compute Team A’s RPI.

At 2-0, their winning pct. is 1.000.

Their average opponents’ winning percentage (OWP):
Team B is 1-0 (1.000) without the loss to Team A. Team C is 1-1 (.500) without the loss to Team A. So the OWP is (1.000 + .500)/2 = .750.

Their average opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage (OOWP):
To do this, we need Team B’s and Team C’s OWP. When removing Team B’s results, Team B’s opponents are 2-0 and 1-0 for an average of 1.000. Team C’s opponents are 0-1, 1-0, and 1-0 for an average of .667. The average of these two numbers is .833.

So Team A’s RPI is 1/4 X (1) + 1/2 X (.75) + 1/4 X (.833) = .8333

Here’s how other columns in the RPI grid are computed…

SOS (Strength of Schedule): This is the last two components of the RPI formula:
(2/3) X Opponents Winning Pct. + (1/3) X Opponents Opponents Winning Pct.