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It occurred to me that with a new basketball season beginning I could do an “Against Ranked Teams” post for this sport, too. The margins of victory are similar to football. The formula is to first give each team that plays a ranked team from 1-25 points based on the ranking (I’ll use the writer’s poll) of their opponent. This chart shows you how many points they’d get for playing each team ranked at a certain level , (the ranking is first, the points, second):
1-25, 2-24, 3-23, 4-22, 5-21, 6-20, 7-19, 8-18, 9-17, 10-16, 11-15, 12-14, 13-13, 14-12, 15-11, 16-10, 17-9, 18-8, 19-7, 20-6, 21-5, 22-4, 23-3, 24-2, 25-1
I’ll call those “schedule points”. Then you look at the point differential in the game and apply it to the schedule points. If a team loses to the #1 ranked team by 10 points. They’d wind up with 15 points: 25 schedule points minus the ten points they lost by. If a team beats the #10 team by 5 points, they’d get 21 points: 16 schedule points plus the 5 points they won by. If a team lost to the #20 team by 6 points, they’d get nothing. The margin of defeat would cancel out their schedule points. If a team lost to the #25 team by 3 points, they get a zero. You can’t have negative points. You just failed in an attempt to get positive points.
I’ll figure the points based on games over the past week every Sunday and post them, along with cumulative season standings, just as I have done for football. As I said on that post, this is less a way of ranking than it is simply something you might want to look at in ranking them – or selecting them for a tournament. I recognize that rankings will change over the course of the season. I’m making the assumption that teams are worthy of the ranking they have at the time another team plays them. That may not always be true but a subsequent ranking may just reflect how good or bad a team has become since the game in question: they may have been as good as their ranking at the time.
WEEK FIVE
Texas-Arlington beat #12 St. Mary’s 65-51 = 28 points
Notre Dame lost to #1 Villanova 66-74 = 17 points
Duke beat #21 Florida 84-74 = 15 points
Iowa beat #25 Iowa State 78-64 = 15 points
LaSalle lost to #1 Villanova 79-89 = 15 points
Butler beat #22 Cincinnati 75-65 = 14 points
Florida lost to #5 Duke 74-84 = 11 points
Indiana State beat #16 Butler 72-71 = 11 points
Villanova beat #23 Notre Dame 74-66 = 11 points
Davidson lost to #7 North Carolina 74-83 = 10 points
Colorado beat #19 Xavier 68-66 = 9 points
Michigan lost to #2 UCLA 84-102 = 6 points
Nebraska lost to #3 Kansas 72-879 = 6 points
Utah lost to #13 Xavier 69-77 = 5 points
Comments: Villanova is the defending national champion, undefeated and ranked #1 but the Notre Dame game was their first against a ranked opponent. UCLA is looking like UCLA again. Pesky Butler seems to have their best team since they lost those two national title games.
Cumulative Totals
Baylor 109 points
Indiana 59 points
Duke 47 points
Kentucky 44 points
Kansas 38 points
South Carolina 38 points
Butler 36 points
UCLA 30 points
Creighton 29 points
Michigan State 29 points
North Carolina 29 points
West Virginia 29 points
Wisconsin 28 points
Texas-Arlington 28 points
Arizona 27 points
Fort Wayne 26 points
Purdue 25 points
Gonzaga 24 points
Louisville 24 points
Florida 20 points
Colorado 18 points
Ohio State 18 points
Georgetown 17 points
Notre Dame 17 points
Wagner 17 points
Lehigh 16 points
Providence 16 points
Iowa 15 points
LaSalle 15 points
Penn State 15 points
Rhode Island 15 points
Temple 15 points
Missouri 14 points
Central Florida 13 points
Indiana State 13 points
Iowa State 13 points
Florida Gulf Coast 12 points
Western Michigan 12 points
Villanova 11 points
Davidson 10 points
Georgia 10 points
Old Dominion 10 points
Santa Clara 10 points
Clemson 9 points
Colorado 9 points
Tennessee 9 points
Cincinnati 8 points
Valparaiso 8 points
Army 7 points
Charleston 7 points
Nebraska 7 points
Northern Iowa 7 points
Rhode Island 7 points
Stanford 7 points
Hawaii 6 points
Michigan 6 points
Wichita State 6 points
Dayton 5 points
Grand Canyon 5 points
Mississippi 5 points
Texas A&M 5 points
Utah 5 points
Akron 4 points
CSU Bakersfield 4 points
Wake Forest 4 points
Connecticut 3 points
Georgia State 3 points
Northern Colorado 2 points
Xavier 2 points
Alabama-Birmingham 1 point
Stephen F. Austin 1 point
1-25, 2-24, 3-23, 4-22, 5-21, 6-20, 7-19, 8-18, 9-17, 10-16, 11-15, 12-14, 13-13, 14-12, 15-11, 16-10, 17-9, 18-8, 19-7, 20-6, 21-5, 22-4, 23-3, 24-2, 25-1
I’ll call those “schedule points”. Then you look at the point differential in the game and apply it to the schedule points. If a team loses to the #1 ranked team by 10 points. They’d wind up with 15 points: 25 schedule points minus the ten points they lost by. If a team beats the #10 team by 5 points, they’d get 21 points: 16 schedule points plus the 5 points they won by. If a team lost to the #20 team by 6 points, they’d get nothing. The margin of defeat would cancel out their schedule points. If a team lost to the #25 team by 3 points, they get a zero. You can’t have negative points. You just failed in an attempt to get positive points.
I’ll figure the points based on games over the past week every Sunday and post them, along with cumulative season standings, just as I have done for football. As I said on that post, this is less a way of ranking than it is simply something you might want to look at in ranking them – or selecting them for a tournament. I recognize that rankings will change over the course of the season. I’m making the assumption that teams are worthy of the ranking they have at the time another team plays them. That may not always be true but a subsequent ranking may just reflect how good or bad a team has become since the game in question: they may have been as good as their ranking at the time.
WEEK FIVE
Texas-Arlington beat #12 St. Mary’s 65-51 = 28 points
Notre Dame lost to #1 Villanova 66-74 = 17 points
Duke beat #21 Florida 84-74 = 15 points
Iowa beat #25 Iowa State 78-64 = 15 points
LaSalle lost to #1 Villanova 79-89 = 15 points
Butler beat #22 Cincinnati 75-65 = 14 points
Florida lost to #5 Duke 74-84 = 11 points
Indiana State beat #16 Butler 72-71 = 11 points
Villanova beat #23 Notre Dame 74-66 = 11 points
Davidson lost to #7 North Carolina 74-83 = 10 points
Colorado beat #19 Xavier 68-66 = 9 points
Michigan lost to #2 UCLA 84-102 = 6 points
Nebraska lost to #3 Kansas 72-879 = 6 points
Utah lost to #13 Xavier 69-77 = 5 points
Comments: Villanova is the defending national champion, undefeated and ranked #1 but the Notre Dame game was their first against a ranked opponent. UCLA is looking like UCLA again. Pesky Butler seems to have their best team since they lost those two national title games.
Cumulative Totals
Baylor 109 points
Indiana 59 points
Duke 47 points
Kentucky 44 points
Kansas 38 points
South Carolina 38 points
Butler 36 points
UCLA 30 points
Creighton 29 points
Michigan State 29 points
North Carolina 29 points
West Virginia 29 points
Wisconsin 28 points
Texas-Arlington 28 points
Arizona 27 points
Fort Wayne 26 points
Purdue 25 points
Gonzaga 24 points
Louisville 24 points
Florida 20 points
Colorado 18 points
Ohio State 18 points
Georgetown 17 points
Notre Dame 17 points
Wagner 17 points
Lehigh 16 points
Providence 16 points
Iowa 15 points
LaSalle 15 points
Penn State 15 points
Rhode Island 15 points
Temple 15 points
Missouri 14 points
Central Florida 13 points
Indiana State 13 points
Iowa State 13 points
Florida Gulf Coast 12 points
Western Michigan 12 points
Villanova 11 points
Davidson 10 points
Georgia 10 points
Old Dominion 10 points
Santa Clara 10 points
Clemson 9 points
Colorado 9 points
Tennessee 9 points
Cincinnati 8 points
Valparaiso 8 points
Army 7 points
Charleston 7 points
Nebraska 7 points
Northern Iowa 7 points
Rhode Island 7 points
Stanford 7 points
Hawaii 6 points
Michigan 6 points
Wichita State 6 points
Dayton 5 points
Grand Canyon 5 points
Mississippi 5 points
Texas A&M 5 points
Utah 5 points
Akron 4 points
CSU Bakersfield 4 points
Wake Forest 4 points
Connecticut 3 points
Georgia State 3 points
Northern Colorado 2 points
Xavier 2 points
Alabama-Birmingham 1 point
Stephen F. Austin 1 point