BPI—College Basketball’s Power Index, invented by ESPN, is a statistic that measures how far above or below average every team is, and projects how well the team will do going forward. The index uses two measurements to do this: BPI Offense (measure of a team’s offensive strength com...
The NCAA released the initial NET rankings for the 2020-21 men's basketball season on Monday, Jan. 4. The NET, which stands for the NCAA Evaluation Tool, replaced the RPI after the 2017-18 season and it is used as the primary sorting tool for selection and seedi...
Coach Rick Pitino backed his team's résumé Sunday. It ranked 24th in the Basketball Power Index (BPI), best of any squad that did not make the NCAA tournament. It also had a NET ranking of 32nd, second best among teams to miss the tournament behind Indiana State (28th). "First of...
The ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI) says Stanford has a 71% chance to beat Arizona for the championship. Which team are you picking? Andrea Adelson: Stanford Katie Barnes: Stanford Charlie Creme: Stanford D'Arcy Maine: Arizona Kevin Pelton: St...
Note, however, that Elo is still just one of six computer rankings that we use for the men’s tournament. The other five are ESPN’sBPI,Jeff Sagarin’s “predictor” ratings,Ken Pomeroy’s ratings, Joel Sokol’sLRMC ratings, andSonny Moore’s computer power ratings. In addition, we use...
Welcome toFiveThirtyEight’s forecastsof the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments. We’ve been issuing probabilistic March Madness forecasts in some formsince 2011, when FiveThirtyEight was just a couple of us writing for The New York Times. While the basics of the system remain the ...
The Madness of March isn’t just confined to what happens on the basketball court. When discussing teams, there are a bevy of statistics, terms, and acronyms thrown out. There’s a team’s NET rankings, KPI, and BPI. The SOS and the SOR. The automatic bid and the at-large bi...