percentage index

The Butlers sometimes win, which boosts their rating percentage index.

They had a strong Ratings Percentage Index, 35, entering the game.

Winning Percentage Index, a measure of a team's strength.

The Pirates' ratings percentage index, which emphasizes victories and strength of schedule, stood at 39 before this afternoon.

The reticulocyte percentage index may find new use as a more reliable detector of erythropoietin-doping in athletes.

Manhattan is 53d in the most recent Rating Percentage Index, a ranking that has been used by the tournament committee since 1981.

Tournament officials rely heavily on teams' Ratings Percentage Index in making their selections.

West Virginia was ranked 49th in the Rating Percentage Index, the computer list used by the tournament committee.

The Eagles can make a case for themselves, as their Ratings Percentage Index ranking was in the 40s before conference play.

Larranaga says it not only boosts the Ratings Percentage Index, which measures strength of schedule.

Its strength of schedule is rated eighth in the nation, and the Pirates have climbed to No. 61 in the ratings percentage index.

Calamity is lining up daily for the basketball conference that was ranked the best in the country this season by the Ratings Percentage Index.

This season, 334 teams were ranked in the Division I Ratings Percentage Index.

The Falcons were once 17-1 this season and holders of a top-10 slot in the Ratings Percentage Index.

This season, the Gaels are No. 62 in the rating percentage index, a formula the committee uses to help it decide at-large entrants.

Huggins was upset that his team's rating percentage index, which quantifies strength of schedule, lost out to a medically tinged crystal ball.

They are prognosticating bracketologists or tireless trackers of the Ratings Percentage Index.

The remaining 42 berths were determined through an at-large process based upon teams' Ratings Percentage Index that did not win their conference tournament.

But the committee's reliance on the rating percentage index (R.P.I.) has put many mid-majors in an untenable position.

The Pride's Ratings Percentage Index placed it 30th out of 334 Division I teams.

The Mountaineers entered the day with an Ratings Percentage Index of 58, not the most flattering of numbers.

After all that, the Saints managed to pull off the second-biggest turnaround in ratings percentage index in Division I this season.

This season's Rebels (25-6) are an anonymous lot, but have a Ratings Percentage Index estimated Wednesday to be 10th in the country.

That is according to the Ratings Percentage Index, a heartless computation of victories, defeats and strength of schedule.

But an independent simulation of the Rating Percentage Index by Collegiate Basketball News tells another story.