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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1986114, member: 289"]
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 FOUR

Baylor beat #7 Xavier 76-61 =                                      34 points
Indiana beat #3 North Carolina 76-67 =                   32 points
UCLA beat #1 Kentucky 97-92 =                                                 30 points
West Virginia beat #5 Virginia 66-57 =                     29 points
Wisconsin beat #22 Syracuse 77-60 =                      21 points
Louisville beat #15 Purdue 71-64 =                           18 points
Ohio State lost to #6 Virginia 61-63 =                       18 points
Gonzaga beat #16 Arizona 69-62 =                            17 points
Iowa State lost to #11 Gonzaga 71-73 =                  13 points
Michigan State lost to #5 Duke 69-78 =                   12 points
Arizona lost to #8 Gonzaga 62-69 =                           11 points
Kentucky lost to #11 UCLA 92-97 =                           10 points
Cincinnati beat #19 Iowa State 55-54 =                     8 points
Providence beat #21 Rhode Island 63-60 =             8 points
Valparaiso beat #21 Rhode Island 65-62 =               8 points
Gonzaga beat #21 Iowa State 73-71 =                      7 points
Stanford lost to #4 Kansas 74-89 =                             7 points
Grand Canyon lost to #14 Louisville 70-79 =           5 points
Purdue lost to #14 Purdue 64-71 =                             5 points
Texas A&M lost to #14 UCLA 67-74 =                         5 points
Akron lost to #10 Creighton 70-82 =                           4 points
North Carolina lost to #13 Indiana  67-76 =             4 points
Xavier lost to #9 Baylor 61-76 =                                   2 points

Comment: Baylor continues their great early-season run and Indian, despite the shocking loss to Ft. Wayne, (first game back from Hawaii), is also off to a good start.

[B]Cumulative Totals[/B]

Baylor                                   109 points
Indiana                                 59 points
Kentucky                             44 points
Kansas                                  38 points
South Carolina                   38 points
Duke                                     32 points
UCLA                                     30 points
Creighton                            29 points
North Carolina                   29 points
West Virginia                     29 points
Wisconsin                            28 points
Arizona                                 27 points
Fort Wayne                        26 points
Michigan State                  26 points
Purdue                                 25 points
Gonzaga                              24 points
Butler                                    22 points
Louisville                              21 points
Colorado                              18 points
Ohio State                           18 points
Georgetown                      17 points
Wagner                                                17 points
Lehigh                                   16 points
Providence                         16 points             
Penn State                          15 points
Rhode Island                      15 points
Temple                                 15 points
Missouri                               14 points
Central Florida                   13 points
Iowa State                          13 points
Florida Gulf Coast            12 points
Western Michigan           12 points
Georgia                                10 points
Old Dominion                    10 points
Santa Clara                          10 points
Clemson                                9 points
Florida                                    9 points
Tennessee                            9 points
Cincinnati                              8 points
Valparaiso                            8 points
Army                                      7 points
Charleston                            7 points
Northern Iowa                    7 points
Rhode Island                        7 points
Stanford                                7 points
Hawaii                                    6 points
Wichita State                      6 points
Dayton                                  5 points
Grand Canyon                    5 points
Mississippi                            5 points
Texas A&M                          5 points
Akron                                      4 points
CSU Bakersfield                                  4 points
Wake Forest                        4 points
Connecticut                          3 points
Georgia State                      3 points
Louisville                                3 points
Michigan State                    3 points
Indiana State                      2 points
Northern Colorado            2 points
Xavier                                    2 points
Alabama-Birmingham       1 point
Nebraska                               1 point
Stephen . Austin               1 point
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