[NU Sports] New Palm projections

[Beamsley, Jeff]

You're right.  With 5 ranked teams, though it did pretty much work out
that all of the unranked teams except NU and UNL had eight games against
ranked teams.  

Illinois - 4 home 4 road
Purdue - 4 home 4 road
Iowa - 4 home 4 road
Minny - 4 home 4 road
Nebraska - 4 home 3 road
NU - 3 home 4 road
PSU - 3 home 5 road

This still remains a little bit simplistic because the rankings do
change through the year, but I think that the overall premise holds.  As
long as the BT continues to produce good teams that are nationally
ranked at the top of the conference, that means that those teams in the
middle of the conference are going to end up with RPI's strong enough to
get them invited to the dance every year.  

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at tssi.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:22 PM
To: Beamsley, Jeff
Cc: Weinbaum Willie; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] New Palm projections

> This whole focus of RPI does also explain why the BT pretty reliably
> sends 7 teams to the dance.  If you assume that the BT is going to
> produce at least four top twenty-five teams (there are five this
year),
> that means that everyone else in the conference plays those teams
twice.
> So automatically, every team in the conference is going to have at
least
> 4 road games and more importantly 4 home games against top 25 teams.

Not necessarily, the Big Ten doesn't play a double RR schedule, so
some teams might only have one game against a ranked team, not
necessarily home/home games.  
--
Mike Nolan