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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1973704, member: 1969"]
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Here are the current conference RPI as we start to get more games.  This will get quite a bit more telling after this weekend.
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[*]Big East and ACC are still clear at the top.   
[*]SEC with a good start for them
[*]Big 12 is hard to tell.   Their SOS is so weak right now.
[*]PAC 12 is doing really bad.  (,5251 is terrible for a P5 conference RPI).  
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I also like to consider # of schools currently top 75 in RPI as that is a good indicator of how easy it will be for a conference to get good wins and avoid bad losses come conference play.    That was the formula for the Pac 12 last year.  That being said invididual team RPI does produce strange results early on
Big East - (60%) 6 of 10
ACC - (73%) 11 of 15
PAC - (33%) 4 of 12

I believe the PAC-12 had 10 schools in the top 75 around January 1 last year --  a bunch of decent teams.   Needless to say they have to turn it around.

This is not to say I am a fan of the RPI by any means to measure teams.   And even if an individual team RPI is not that important to a committee, the conference RPI is really important because it dictates top 50 wins which is key at the end.

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The KP rating is starting to get more relevant as results are almost connected enough.

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KP really likes the ACC
5 of the top 8 teams in the country.
11 top 50
13 top 65

This is a really tough conference
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