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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2470149, member: 1969"] As we get into February one thing you are likely to hear on TV is "quadrants". A fairly significant change to the selection of NCAA teams is how they assess quality wins. Prior to this year you had four categories with opponents based on RPI: 1-50 (Quality Wins) 51-100 (Decent Wins) 100-200 (Bad Loss) 201+ (Really Bad Loss) These four categories are now: Quadrant 1: Home 1-30; Neutral 1-50; Away 1-75 Quadrant 2: Home 31-75; Neutral 51-100; Away 76-135 Quadrant 3: Home 76-160; Neutral 101-200; Away 136-240 Quadrant 4: Home 161-plus; Neutral 201-plus; Away 241-plus. [URL="https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2017-12-05/ncaa-selection-committee-adjusts-team-sheets-emphasizing"]NCAA selection committee adjusts team sheets, emphasizing road/neutral games more than ever[/URL] Some questions and my answers or opinions. [B]Why? [/B]When you consider the standard home court advantage around 3.75 points, beating the #30 team in Ken Pom at home is about the same as beating #75 As teams did not have a balanced amount of home/road games in each group, this split will bring it closer. [B] Is this a good change? [/B]IMO Yes. Winning on the road is harder than winning at home, and it should be included in your quality win totals. [B]Are rankings based on RPI? [/B]It appears so, but I am not 100% sure. In the past it has been, but perhaps now that they are emphasizing things like KP and BPI, they will use an average of the 4 metrics to rank the teams. It woold make much more sense. [B] Who do this help? [/B]Mid majors who generally did not get a change to get 30-50 wins against home teams in conference that are really not that great. What it will do is move more games up to quadrant 1 and quadrant 2 for these teams, so it will make it easier to compare the two. [B][/B] For P5 teams it will games from quadrant 1 to [B][/B] That being said in 2017, the bubble was very shallow and I don't believe this would have changed things. But in 2016, the bubble was perhaps the most complex it ever has been. This rating system would have made it easier to compare teams like Valparaiso, St. Mary's, St Bonaventure, Wichita St, Monmouth, San Diego St, and Tulsa versus P5 teams on the bubble. As you may remember in 2016, the p5 schools got in because they had more top 50 wins (but they also had more opportunity) [B] Does this help Syracuse? [/B] It could take a few seeds away from P5 schools each year. In 2o17 it would have made no difference. In 2016, it would certainly have changed who got in/out the tourney. [B]Where do I find info[/B] Many RPI based sites have not updated. Warren Nolan does have the updates groupings. [URL="http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2018/rpi-live"]Rating Percentage Index (RPI) Live 2017-2018 Men's College Basketball - WarrenNolan.com[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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