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Significant Game-RPI eliminates some of the unreasonable schedule bias in RPI. Specifically, beating a bad team does not make you bad -- games that you win but reduce your rating are not significant. Also, losing to a tough team does not make you good -- games that you lose but improve your rating are not signficiant either. Both these types of games are dropped from SG-RPI.

SG-RPI through 1/10/04 (data from Ken Pomeroy's excellent site). SG stands for significant game count, and Rank difference is (RPI rank - SGRPI rank).

Team (Conf.) W- L (SG) SG_rpi (Rank Difference)

1. Illinois (B10 ) 16- 0 (1) 0.907252 (+4)
2. Kansas (B12 ) 11- 0 (1) 0.861278 (-1)
3. Duke (ACC ) 11- 0 (1) 0.846685 (+3)
4. Boston College (ACC ) 13- 0 (1) 0.818284 (-1)
5. Wake Forest (ACC ) 13- 1 (6) 0.801913 (-3)
6. Syracuse (BE ) 16- 1 (4) 0.765902 (+9)
7. Cincinnati (CUSA ) 13- 1 (4) 0.751662 (+15)
8. Oklahoma St. (B12 ) 10- 1 (4) 0.745349 (-4)
9. Oklahoma (B12 ) 12- 2 (5) 0.720971 (+11)
10. Georgia Tech (ACC ) 11- 2 (5) 0.720807 (+0)
11. Marquette (CUSA ) 12- 1 (4) 0.720124 (+20)
12. North Carolina (ACC ) 13- 1 (5) 0.716147 (+2)
13. Washington (P10 ) 12- 2 (7) 0.715592 (-4)
14. Kentucky (SEC ) 10- 2 (4) 0.714015 (+5)
15. Gonzaga (WCC ) 11- 3 (8) 0.710885 (-4)
16. Oregon (P10 ) 10- 2 (7) 0.708789 (-8)
17. Texas A&M (B12 ) 9- 1 (2) 0.708510 (+78)
18. West Virginia (BE ) 11- 1 (3) 0.707300 (+24)
19. George Washington (A10 ) 10- 2 (4) 0.706903 (+4)
20. Arizona (P10 ) 12- 3 (8) 0.701713 (-13)
21. UCLA (P10 ) 9- 3 (7) 0.696807 (-8)
22. Michigan St. (B10 ) 10- 2 (4) 0.695148 (+5)
23. Iowa (B10 ) 12- 3 (9) 0.693311 (-5)
24. Mississippi St. (SEC ) 14- 2 (7) 0.678984 (+9)
25. Virginia (ACC ) 9- 3 (8) 0.675263 (-13)
26. Ohio St. (B10 ) 12- 3 (9) 0.671477 (-9)
27. Alabama (SEC ) 11- 3 (9) 0.670874 (-2)
28. Texas (B12 ) 11- 2 (8) 0.665143 (+8)
29. Arkansas (SEC ) 13- 2 (8) 0.664152 (+14)
30. Arizona St. (P10 ) 13- 2 (6) 0.661319 (+0)
31. Texas El Paso (WAC ) 11- 2 (5) 0.659870 (+32)
32. Connecticut (BE ) 9- 3 (8) 0.658839 (-6)
33. Wisconsin (B10 ) 10- 3 (9) 0.655357 (-12)
34. Hawaii (WAC ) 9- 2 (6) 0.653541 (+18)
35. Pacific (BW ) 9- 2 (4) 0.650888 (+10)
36. Clemson (ACC ) 9- 5 (7) 0.649703 (-2)
37. Vanderbilt (SEC ) 11- 4 (8) 0.647814 (-13)
38. New Mexico (MWC ) 13- 2 (4) 0.646934 (+49)
39. Wichita St. (MVC ) 10- 1 (5) 0.644140 (+8)
40. Northern Iowa (MVC ) 10- 3 (6) 0.636696 (+31)
41. Southern Illinois (MVC ) 11- 3 (11) 0.633601 (-6)
42. Maryland (ACC ) 9- 3 (8) 0.633454 (+13)
43. Kent St. (MAC ) 8- 4 (8) 0.633031 (-15)
44. Pittsburgh (BE ) 11- 2 (6) 0.632820 (+9)
45. Minnesota (B10 ) 11- 3 (9) 0.632209 (-16)
46. Temple (A10 ) 5- 6 (9) 0.630134 (-30)
47. Michigan (B10 ) 10- 5 (9) 0.628733 (+4)
48. Utah (MWC ) 11- 3 (6) 0.627364 (+6)
49. Louisville (CUSA ) 10- 3 (8) 0.627273 (+1)
50. DePaul (CUSA ) 9- 4 (11) 0.626368 (-18)
51. Notre Dame (BE ) 10- 3 (6) 0.626331 (+16)
52. Villanova (BE ) 8- 2 (4) 0.622927 (-8)
53. Texas Tech (B12 ) 8- 4 (7) 0.621077 (+19)
54. UAB (CUSA ) 12- 3 (10) 0.616949 (+2)
55. Nevada (WAC ) 9- 3 (6) 0.615355 (-7)
56. Old Dominion (CAA ) 12- 2 (6) 0.613748 (+49)
57. Florida (SEC ) 9- 3 (6) 0.613690 (+7)
58. South Carolina (SEC ) 9- 4 (8) 0.609355 (-12)
59. St. Mary's (WCC ) 12- 4 (10) 0.607994 (+0)
60. Providence (BE ) 8- 5 (9) 0.607520 (-23)
61. Colorado (B12 ) 8- 4 (10) 0.605852 (-21)
62. Georgetown (BE ) 9- 4 (6) 0.605703 (-4)
63. Missouri (B12 ) 9- 5 (10) 0.603712 (-22)
64. Creighton (MVC ) 10- 5 (11) 0.603199 (+2)
65. Rice (WAC ) 7- 4 (9) 0.602759 (-26)
66. Houston (CUSA ) 9- 6 (11) 0.602279 (-17)
67. Vermont (AE ) 9- 3 (6) 0.600118 (-6)
68. Texas Christian (CUSA ) 9- 5 (8) 0.599814 (+2)
69. Miami FL (ACC ) 10- 3 (8) 0.597770 (-9)
70. Massachusetts (A10 ) 7- 5 (9) 0.597636 (-32)
71. Nebraska (B12 ) 7- 4 (6) 0.597546 (+35)
72. Nevada Las Vegas (MWC ) 6- 6 (9) 0.594774 (-15)
73. Western Kentucky (SB ) 9- 2 (5) 0.594183 (+3)
74. Bradley (MVC ) 9- 3 (8) 0.592607 (+1)
75. Hofstra (CAA ) 10- 2 (5) 0.591643 (+9)
76. Iowa St. (B12 ) 8- 4 (8) 0.588547 (+1)
77. Princeton (Ivy ) 8- 5 (7) 0.587405 (-12)
78. Bowling Green (MAC ) 8- 2 (6) 0.583405 (+22)
79. Arkansas Little Rock (SB ) 6- 5 (7) 0.581455 (-5)
80. Indiana (B10 ) 6- 7 (10) 0.581438 (-18)
81. Rutgers (BE ) 6- 5 (10) 0.579834 (-13)
82. Buffalo (MAC ) 9- 3 (8) 0.576449 (+3)
83. Evansville (MVC ) 9- 4 (9) 0.576155 (+0)
84. Oregon St. (P10 ) 10- 4 (10) 0.575479 (+20)
85. Holy Cross (Pat ) 8- 5 (9) 0.574497 (-16)
86. North Carolina St. (ACC ) 10- 4 (8) 0.574044 (+15)
87. Bucknell (Pat ) 10- 4 (10) 0.573066 (-9)
88. Texas A&M Corpus Chris (ind ) 9- 5 (8) 0.572730 (+39)
89. Kansas St. (B12 ) 8- 2 (6) 0.571634 (+8)
90. Wisconsin Green Bay (Horz ) 9- 3 (6) 0.571350 (+20)
91. Charlotte (CUSA ) 10- 2 (7) 0.571262 (+3)
92. Fresno St. (WAC ) 8- 4 (6) 0.570910 (+20)
93. California (P10 ) 8- 6 (9) 0.569197 (-20)
94. Southwest Missouri St. (MVC ) 7- 5 (9) 0.566308 (-6)
95. Tennessee (SEC ) 8- 6 (11) 0.564073 (-16)
96. Chattanooga (SC ) 7- 3 (7) 0.563749 (+15)
97. Boston University (AE ) 10- 3 (7) 0.563381 (-8)
98. Northwestern (B10 ) 8- 6 (10) 0.562823 (-17)
99. Western Michigan (MAC ) 9- 3 (10) 0.562734 (-7)
100. Wyoming (MWC ) 8- 6 (11) 0.562294 (-7)

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Overrated by RPI (RPI rank, SG-RPI rank):

Oregon(8,16), Arizona (7,20), Virginia (12,25), UCLA(13,21), tOSU (17,26), Wisconsin (21,33), Vandy (24,37), Kent St. (28,43), Minnesota (29,45), Temple (16,46), Depaul (32,50), Providence (47,60), Colorado (40,61), Missouri (41,63), Rice (39, 65), Houston (49, 66), UMass (38,70)

Underrated by RPI:

Illinois (5,1), Duke (6,3), Syracuse (15,6), Cinci (22, 15), Oklahoma (20,9), Marquette (31,11), Texas A&M (95, 17)!, West Virginia (42,18), Mississippi St. (33,24), Texas (36,28), Arkansas (43,29), UTEP (63,31), Hawaii (52,34), Pacific (45,35), New Mexico (87,38), Northern Iowa (71,40), Maryland (55,42), Pitt (53,44), Notre Dame (67,51)