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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 896443, member: 1969"]
Your point is incorrect.   A loss to Syracuse will not have much negative impact (if any) on RPI or KP of a team like Baylor.    There are many games, but the way the formulas work as well will not impact Baylor.

But let's go further with the impact on Baylor of losing to Syracuse.   I am not a fan of RPI but its obviously relevant because it is the basis of top 25 and top 50 teams for the committee.

[B]RPI[/B]

RPI is 25% your winning%, 50% your opponent winning%, and 25% their opponents winning%.    I guess your point could only be applied to the last 25% ...but all top teams would have same impact on cumulative record of their opponents .   Let's say we won 2 more games than another top contender.       It would be 2 losses out of a sample of about 1200.  So no impact.

[I]By the formula itself, merely playing us, will have a positive impact on your RPI[/I].     Its huge for the 50% factor, and our SOS is still projected at #50 in the nation so the last 25% is strong as well.

[I]Losing to us, is better than beating a  Cupcake.[/I]       If you beat a cupcake the first 25% is great, but then your getting much less for the last 75% of the formula.

[I]The only thing better than losing to Syracuse would be beating a team like Dayton[/I].    It would get less of that last 75%, but not so much less to offset the first 25% you now get.   (Of course you better beat Dayton!)

But at the end of the day, losing to us really has no negative impact on your RPI.   We are not taking teams out of the top 25 RPI.

[B]KP[/B]

KP is based on efficiency, but you can convert the rankings to points.     We are currently 8 points better than Baylor on a neutral court.   We beat them by 7 on a neutral court.       So in fact that game against Syracuse slightly improved their KP by about 1 point over their course of the season --  from .8292 to.8298, but still 44th either way.
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