Who did you beat?- basketball

[SWC75]

I just did this post about evaluating college football schedules and victories:
http://syracusefan.com/threads/who-did-you-beat.18165/

I couldn't resist doing the same thing for the two top college basketball teams, as of this moment:

SYRACUSE
265 Fordham 81
117 Manhattan 229
214 Albany 132
317 Colgate 29
73 Virginia tech 273
55 Stanford 291
251 Eastern Michigan 95
14 Florida 332
74 Marshall 272
176 George Washington 170
50 NC State 296
104 Bucknell 242
142 Tulane 204
46 Seton Hall 300
166 DePaul 180
120 Providence 226
15 Marquette 331
67 Villanova 279
120 Providence 226
70 Pittsburgh 276
40 Notre Dame 0 (loss)
45 Cincinnati 301
38 West Virginia 308
152 St. John's 194
13 Georgetown 333
35 Connecticut 311
20 Lousiville 326
Total: 6237 points, (2646 in the 13 non-confercne games and 3591 in the 14 Big East games)

KENTUCKY
273 Marist 73
3 Kansas 343
175 Penn State 171
112 Old Dominion 234
311 Radford 35
269 Portland 77
152 St. John's 194
7 North Carolina 339
10 Indiana 0 (lost)
253 Chattanooga 93
277 Samford 69
139 Loyola (Maryland ) 207
20 Louisville 326
187 Arkansas-Little Rock 159
151 South Carolina 195
156 Auburn 190
79 Tennessee 267
90 Arkansas 256
29 Alabama 317
113 Georgia 233
76 LSU 270
79 Tennessee 267
151 South Carolina 195
14 Florida 332
33 Vanderbilt 313
Total: 5155 points, (1994 in the 13 non-conference games, 3161 in 13 SEC games)

 

[moqui]

seems unnecessarily complicated, when you can just check the SOS numbers as they are already computed. Every rating system agrees that SU has had the more difficult schedule (although UK's has not exactly been weak, and SU's has not exactly been a minefield)

Sagarin
SU 27
Kentucky 66

Pomeroy
SUm 39
Kentucky 58

Palm
SU 12
Kentucky 55

 

[Niastri]

Since the RPI actually mostly works in BB, why not use that? We got savaged by guys like Dookie Vitale when we had a bad schedule by use of the RPI and the RPI's version of the SOS.

Look at all the top teams competing for the number one overall seed, and we see how weak the complaints about our schedule are.

(deleted rant about ESPN and unfair coverage)

 

[SWC75]

Since the RPI actually mostly works in BB, why not use that? We got savaged by guys like Dookie Vitale when we had a bad schedule by use of the RPI and the RPI's version of the SOS.

Look at all the top teams competing for the number one overall seed, and we see how weak the complaints about our schedule are.

(deleted rant about ESPN and unfair coverage)

Well the pundits seem to ignore the current system of rankings: why not throw somehting else at them? It might be good to have a number that tells you how valuable a win is- at least for the moment.