[burger]

I know its early in the year for RPI, and Im far from an expert on this, but seems really odd that our RPI rank is 218 after beating 4  teams supposedly ranked in the top 100. Is this just gibberish or do I need some educating on how this works, or both?

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb.../teamId/24

RPI is notoriously unstable early in the season before the sample sizes get large enough to be meaningful.  And because lots of teams are undefeated so far, the early rankings weight opponents win % even more than normal.  Our opponents have not exactly covered themselves in glory so far.  In games against non-Stanford teams, Harvard is 0-1, CSUN is 1-1, Weber is 0-1.  Colo St. hasn't factored in yet on ESPN, but it has on Warren Nolan's site, which has us 28th in RPI as of this minute: http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2017/rpi-live

More generally, RPI is kind of a crappy way to rank teams.  Ken Pomeroy's rankings use adjusted efficiency on offense and defense, which makes more sense to me.  http://kenpom.com

I like seeing how we're doing in the rankings, but I wouldn't give it much thought until closer to the P-12 season.

[burger]

I know its early in the year for RPI, and Im far from an expert on this, but seems really odd that our RPI rank is 218 after beating 4  teams supposedly ranked in the top 100. Is this just gibberish or do I need some educating on how this works, or both?

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb.../teamId/24

RPI is notoriously unstable early in the season before the sample sizes get large enough to be meaningful.  And because lots of teams are undefeated so far, the early rankings weight opponents win % even more than normal.  Our opponents have not exactly covered themselves in glory so far.  In games against non-Stanford teams, Harvard is 0-1, CSUN is 1-1, Weber is 0-1.  Colo St. hasn't factored in yet on ESPN, but it has on Warren Nolan's site, which has us 28th in RPI as of this minute: http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2017/rpi-live

More generally, RPI is kind of a crappy way to rank teams.  Ken Pomeroy's rankings use adjusted efficiency on offense and defense, which makes more sense to me.  http://kenpom.com

I like seeing how we're doing in the rankings, but I wouldn't give it much thought until closer to the P-12 season.