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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 15, 2024 18:10:08 GMT -5
My latest as teams move into the final week of no -conference play… Nebraska Penn State Wisconsin Purdue Minnesota USC Oregon Ohio State Washington UCLA Illinois Indiana Michigan Michigan State Maryland Northwestern Iowa Rutgers Ohio State just said hold on a minute
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Post by Kearney Kingston on Sept 15, 2024 18:12:04 GMT -5
My latest as teams move into the final week of no -conference play… Nebraska Penn State Wisconsin Purdue Minnesota USC Oregon Ohio State Washington UCLA Illinois Indiana Michigan Michigan State Maryland Northwestern Iowa Rutgers Ohio State just said hold on a minute Yes they did. Drop them below Illinois.
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 15, 2024 18:13:51 GMT -5
Ohio State just said hold on a minute Yes they did. Drop them below Illinois. So many teams with split personalities this year. Have a great match one day and lay an egg the next.
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Post by dbro1970 on Sept 15, 2024 19:53:44 GMT -5
Updated - mid-weekend. Probably a bad idea… 1. Nebraska 2. Penn State 3. Wisconsin 4. Purdue 5. Minnesota 6. Oregon 7. USC 8. Illinois 9. UCLA 10. Ohio State 11. Indiana 12. Washington 13. Michigan 14. Michigan State 15. Northwestern 16. Maryland 17. Iowa 18. Rutgers Wisconsin is way too hNoigh No they are not.
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Post by 25or624 on Sept 15, 2024 20:40:40 GMT -5
Wisconsin is way too hNoigh No they are not. Let's wait to see if everyone is ready for Marquette on Tuesday night, including Anna. Sheff said "her role is still evolving", so I want to see Sarah, CC, Carter, Devyn, Charlie, Lola and GG out of the gate.
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Post by ay2013 on Sept 16, 2024 3:05:42 GMT -5
Ok, last week to make a statement
Matches to Watch: Penn State - Pitt Nebraska- Stanford, Louisville Illinois - Missouri Wisconsin - Texas A&M, Marquette Purdue - Creighton, Kansas Washington - LBSU, Pepperdine, Oregon State Michigan - North Carolina, Duke USC - LMU Maryland - UCF Indiana - Notre Dame (x2) Iowa - Drake, St. Louis Mighigan State - North Carolina, Duke Rutgers - Old Dominion Northwestern - Northern Illinois (x2)
24 matches here. It would be great if we could win 19+, it could be the difference of another NCAA tournament bid for the conference.
Everything else on the schedule should be W's!!!!
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Post by ay2013 on Sept 16, 2024 3:22:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it was purposeful or not, but the Big 10 did itself a big favor by no team getting more than one home and away with Northwestern and Rutgers.
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Post by maigrey on Sept 16, 2024 6:13:24 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it was purposeful or not, but the Big 10 did itself a big favor by no team getting more than one home and away with Northwestern and Rutgers. That's purposeful, but not specific to northwestern and Rutgers. No one has more than one home and away with any team this year.
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Post by bluepenquin on Sept 16, 2024 6:38:44 GMT -5
Here comes my trolling.
It seems like the number of B1G fans at VT increased by 3X with realignment. Observations:
1) Nebraska/Penn State fans seem to talk way less about the conference than every other fan of a team in the conference.
2) Nebraska/Penn State fans don't talk about RPI. Heck, those teams don't seem to care that much about RPI. Penn State used to never schedule with RPI on their minds - and Nebraska to a lesser extent. Those two programs seemed to only care about how to get their team to be playing their best by tournament time (or conference play). Texas was probably similar; except they were forced to schedule like heck in the non-conference because they weren't getting the same competition in conference play.
3) In terms of conference loyalty - we are soon going to get to B1G fans and everyone else. I am starting to get there.
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 16, 2024 9:35:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it was purposeful or not, but the Big 10 did itself a big favor by no team getting more than one home and away with Northwestern and Rutgers. Other than West Coast teams, the other teams were divided into three tiers and teams got (roughly I think) 1 home and away with each tier. Since that's 14 teams I imagine there's a fudge factor in there, and I can't be bothered to go look up the specifics. RPI-wise I have to believe the West Coast teams will have the most favorable schedules.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Sept 16, 2024 9:52:01 GMT -5
Here comes my trolling. It seems like the number of B1G fans at VT increased by 3X with realignment. Observations: 1) Nebraska/Penn State fans seem to talk way less about the conference than every other fan of a team in the conference. 2) Nebraska/Penn State fans don't talk about RPI. Heck, those teams don't seem to care that much about RPI. Penn State used to never schedule with RPI on their minds - and Nebraska to a lesser extent. Those two programs seemed to only care about how to get their team to be playing their best by tournament time (or conference play). Texas was probably similar; except they were forced to schedule like heck in the non-conference because they weren't getting the same competition in conference play. 3) In terms of conference loyalty - we are soon going to get to B1G fans and everyone else. I am starting to get there. Well that is because RPI really didn’t matter for Penn St. remember when they got a seed at #26? And they got a cupcake subregional regardless of seed. RPI matters for the other teams, so those teams talk about it.
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Post by bluepenquin on Sept 16, 2024 11:11:05 GMT -5
Here comes my trolling. It seems like the number of B1G fans at VT increased by 3X with realignment. Observations: 1) Nebraska/Penn State fans seem to talk way less about the conference than every other fan of a team in the conference. 2) Nebraska/Penn State fans don't talk about RPI. Heck, those teams don't seem to care that much about RPI. Penn State used to never schedule with RPI on their minds - and Nebraska to a lesser extent. Those two programs seemed to only care about how to get their team to be playing their best by tournament time (or conference play). Texas was probably similar; except they were forced to schedule like heck in the non-conference because they weren't getting the same competition in conference play. 3) In terms of conference loyalty - we are soon going to get to B1G fans and everyone else. I am starting to get there. Well that is because RPI really didn’t matter for Penn St. remember when they got a seed at #26? And they got a cupcake subregional regardless of seed. RPI matters for the other teams, so those teams talk about it. I think this is a fair point. It doesn't explain Nebraska in the past and it assumes that Penn State just automatically knew they were going to get favorable treatment regardless of RPI (or they Never got burned by RPI, so they acted accordingly). But I am alluding to something else - those that are gunning for the National Championship are less likely to care about RPI than those in that next tier. I am certainly guilty of that - as my team is always in that next tier or farther down the pecking order. Also - why does Washington care so much about what Ohio State, Illinois, Indiana, and Rutgers does? I am pretty sure those schools don't care about Washington. I could see some PAC 12 band together - as they do impact each other more in RPI since they play twice, then getting overly concerned about what Rutgers and Iowa do - or actual competitors for bids like Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio State. I would consider Ohio State losing to Wright State to be kind of a net good thing.
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Post by boilermaker5 on Sept 16, 2024 11:13:57 GMT -5
Well that is because RPI really didn’t matter for Penn St. remember when they got a seed at #26? And they got a cupcake subregional regardless of seed. RPI matters for the other teams, so those teams talk about it. I think this is a fair point. It doesn't explain Nebraska in the past and it assumes that Penn State just automatically knew they were going to get favorable treatment regardless of RPI (or they Never got burned by RPI, so they acted accordingly). But I am alluding to something else - those that are gunning for the National Championship are less likely to care about RPI than those in that next tier. I am certainly guilty of that - as my team is always in that next tier or farther down the pecking order. Also - why does Washington care so much about what Ohio State, Illinois, Indiana, and Rutgers does? I am pretty sure those schools don't care about Washington. I could see some PAC 12 band together - as they do impact each other more in RPI since they play twice, then getting overly concerned about what Rutgers and Iowa do - or actual competitors for bids like Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio State. I would consider Ohio State losing to Wright State to be kind of a net good thing. Opponents Opponents still counts for 25% of RPI, so general conference strength still matters, no?
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Post by bluepenquin on Sept 16, 2024 11:21:51 GMT -5
I think this is a fair point. It doesn't explain Nebraska in the past and it assumes that Penn State just automatically knew they were going to get favorable treatment regardless of RPI (or they Never got burned by RPI, so they acted accordingly). But I am alluding to something else - those that are gunning for the National Championship are less likely to care about RPI than those in that next tier. I am certainly guilty of that - as my team is always in that next tier or farther down the pecking order. Also - why does Washington care so much about what Ohio State, Illinois, Indiana, and Rutgers does? I am pretty sure those schools don't care about Washington. I could see some PAC 12 band together - as they do impact each other more in RPI since they play twice, then getting overly concerned about what Rutgers and Iowa do - or actual competitors for bids like Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio State. I would consider Ohio State losing to Wright State to be kind of a net good thing. Opponents Opponents still counts for 25% of RPI, so general conference strength still matters, no? It does, but it isn't the only thing or even the most important thing. Opponents Opponnents w/% is a very low impact measure. Among B1G and ACC - Wisconsin has the best projected score for this at .1428. Followed by Stanford/Louisville at .1419 and Purdue at .1417. If I go farther down the list - there is no correlation on this with conference (as in - the ACC isn't winning this metric over the B1G because they have a better projected non conference record). The worst ones (among relevant teams) is right around .1400. This just isn't a big mover.
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Post by JJVb on Sept 16, 2024 16:16:51 GMT -5
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