I took Indy's RPI results and augmented them by doing the same thing with the Massey rating (see his post for methodology:
http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...ml?id=2545050:)
Code:
rpi NCAA rpi mass mass mass
team rpi seed seed diff rank seed diff
Kentucky 12 3 8 -5 22 6 -2
Villanova 15 4 9 -5 28 7 -2
Creighton 20 5 10 -5 47 10 0
UNLV 10 3 7 -4 16 4 -3
Arizona 14 4 8 -4 12 3 -5
Illinois 30 8 12 -4 36 9 -3
Brigham Young 19 5 8 -3 39 9 1
Michigan St 24 6 9 -3 27 7 -2
Arkansas 35 9 12 -3 43 10 -2
Old Dominion 37 9 12 -3 71 12 0
S Illinois 7 2 4 -2 14 4 0
Duke 16 4 6 -2 17 5 -1
Marquette 22 6 8 -2 25 6 -2
Davidson 49 11 13 -2 52 11 -2
UCLA 2 1 2 -1 3 1 -1
Wisconsin 4 1 2 -1 2 1 -1
Pittsburgh 5 2 3 -1 9 3 0
Tennessee 13 4 5 -1 18 5 0
Nevada 23 6 7 -1 20 5 -2
Xavier 32 8 9 -1 61 12 3
VA Commonwealth 42 10 11 -1 62 12 1
Holy Cross 61 12 13 -1 102 14 1
New Mexico St 69 12 13 -1 69 12 -1
Wright St 73 13 14 -1 97 13 -1
TAM C. Christi 82 14 15 -1 93 13 -2
E Kentucky 128 15 16 -1 181 16 0
Ohio St 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
North Carolina 3 1 1 0 6 2 1
Memphis 8 2 2 0 8 2 0
Indiana 28 7 7 0 31 8 1
Penn 81 14 14 0 109 14 0
Oral Roberts 89 14 14 0 106 14 0
Belmont 112 15 15 0 155 15 0
North Texas 126 15 15 0 156 15 0
Central Conn 150 16 16 0 184 16 0
Jackson St 166 16 16 0 228 16 0
Florida A&M 164 16 16 0 223 16 0
Niagara 134 16 16 0 161 16 0
Florida 6 2 1 1 4 1 0
Georgetown 9 3 2 1 7 2 0
Maryland 17 5 4 1 15 4 0
Boston College 33 8 7 1 37 9 2
Purdue 44 10 9 1 38 9 0
Georgia Tech 52 11 10 1 30 8 -2
Texas Tech 53 11 10 1 53 11 1
Stanford 67 12 11 1 33 8 -3
Long Beach St 80 13 12 1 89 13 1
Albany NY 83 14 13 1 132 15 2
Miami OH 90 15 14 1 114 14 0
Weber St 143 16 15 1 158 15 0
Kansas 11 3 1 2 5 2 1
Texas A&M 18 5 3 2 13 4 1
Butler 27 7 5 2 49 11 6
Notre Dame 31 8 6 2 24 6 0
Gonzaga 60 12 10 2 58 11 1
Winthrop 70 13 11 2 29 7 -4
G Washington 72 13 11 2 72 13 2
Oregon 21 6 3 3 10 3 0
Texas 25 7 4 3 21 5 1
Louisville 38 9 6 3 26 7 1
Washington St 26 7 3 4 11 3 0
Virginia Tech 34 9 5 4 40 10 5
Vanderbilt 47 10 6 4 41 10 4
USC 40 10 5 5 23 6 1
Virginia 55 11 4 7 35 8 4
I also computed the mean absolute deviation of each ranking system:
Code:
Mean absolute deviation for Massey = 1.262
Mean absolute deviation for RPI = 1.815
At least this year on average we observe smaller deviation on average for the Massey ranking system than RPI. Furthermore, for the extreme negative rpi differences (-3 or worse) massey has a smaller difference (in magnitude) than the RPI for ever case except Arizona. Does this mean that the committee used Massey or some other computer ranking? I doubt it. I think it is more likely that there is a variable that they gave significant weight to (maybe top 50 or top 100 record) that is correlated with Massey.