Penn State’s loss to Minnesota couple with Purdue’s win over Ohio State vaults the Boilermakers back past Penn State into the eighth spot in the league. Michigan State drops a spot falling to third behind Indiana as a result of their ugly loss to Iowa. # Team Pace Off Def Pwr Rank 1 Wisconsin 66.4 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Power Rankings category.
RPI and Pomeroy Rankings
Both headed south after the loss. Our RPI plunged to 138 while the Pomeroy Ranking, which takes the score into account, dropped only a few points to 64.
RPI and Pomeroy Rankings (01/07/08)
PSU continued to move up in both the RPI and Pomeroy Rankings. The two rankings also continued the convergence that they started post Orlando. Ken Pomeroy now has Penn State at 61st while the RPI rankings puts them at 100.
Big Ten Power Rankings (01/07/08)
With its two road wins Penn State continued to move up the national rankings climbing up ten spots into 61st place and starting to put themselves on people’s bubble watch lists. That movement wasn’t enough to overtake any other Big Ten squad though so they remained eighth in the league just behind their Saturday conquest [...]
Big Ten Power Rankings (01/01/08)
Penn State’s New Year’s Eve game against Lehigh caused the rankings to be a day late this week. You can expect to see them on Mondays for the rest of the season. Wisconsin’s big win against Texas in Austin enable them to hold onto the top spot in the Big Ten Rankings. They’ve held that [...]
Ratings and Rankings
Here’s our rankings at the end of the non conference portion of our schedule. RPI and Pomeroy Rankings As might be expected, our RPI went up as a result of the win over Lehigh but our Pomeroy Rating went down because of all the points that we allowed the Mountain Hawks to score.
Smoke and Mirrors?
Every time I look at the RPI/Pomeroy Ranking Chart, I get encouraged. How could you not with that lovely upward trend rising from the disastrous Orlando ashes? But then I start to wonder. What exactly has caused this turnaround? And is it sustainable. Let’s focus on the Ken Pomeroy’s number simply because there’s more information [...]
Big Ten Power Rankings 12/24/07
I’ve changed my publishing date for the Power Rankings. From now on, I’ll wait until the weekend action is complete. With the new TV contracts, that means on most weeks the rankings won’t be up until Monday (for next week, with Penn State playing on Monday, it means waiting until Tuesday). This will ensure a [...]
Big Ten Power Rankings 12/21/07
# Team Pace Off Def Pwr Rank 1 Wisconsin 65.0 1.11 0.77 1.44 4 2 Michigan St 63.8 1.19 0.88 1.35 9 3 Indiana 70.3 1.17 0.88 1.32 17 4 Minnesota 69.0 1.14 0.91 1.26 33 5 Illinois 66.4 1.07 0.85 1.25 35 6 Ohio State 65.7 1.02 0.85 1.20 55 7 Penn State 69.5 [...]
