tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post1090701090063946293..comments2024-03-26T02:16:22.309-07:00Comments on parinella's blog: Sectionals 2009parinellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802604259779936852noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post-19648617458767983202009-09-29T08:59:41.746-07:002009-09-29T08:59:41.746-07:00I don't know about "completely" in c...I don't know about "completely" in capital letters, but I agree that it's kinda funny. I think it's a bone to induce participation by Masters teams. It's also intended to benefit teams who will not qualify for Regionals. This lets them be a little better by including Masters players, particularly if those players are regular members of that team and are just whoring on a Masters team.<br />I think our team would still participate in Open Sectionals if there were a separate Masters series in the spring/summer, or maybe some of us would join other teams for the fall.parinellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802604259779936852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post-85956325963813931932009-09-29T08:23:58.723-07:002009-09-29T08:23:58.723-07:00It is and always has been COMPLETELY inappropriate...It is and always has been COMPLETELY inappropriate for a masters team to participate in Open Sectionals.<br /><br />Just more ridiculous UPA nonsense. Mind boggling.Frank Huguenardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15941764154395840101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post-18544728687804556742009-09-24T11:57:51.974-07:002009-09-24T11:57:51.974-07:00Thank you.
As someone who recently moved to Americ...Thank you.<br />As someone who recently moved to America (from UK) that really helped clear that up.Richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post-52187402477582377172009-09-24T08:28:01.269-07:002009-09-24T08:28:01.269-07:00RRI = something like Relative Ranking Index. It&#...RRI = something like Relative Ranking Index. It's the system that ranks teams based on their scores. <a href="http://www2.upa.org/scores/scores.cgi?page=7&div=20" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is the page for the Open standings.<br /><br />RRI says that you would expect Red Tide to do better than DoG at the next tournament because their RRI was higher, yet we beat them and finished ahead of them in pool play. I think this is largely due to their lopsided wins over Tufts and Slingshot (which we beat by 2) and Brown (which we did not play but they had an otherwise decent tournament).<br /><br />So, a word of caution to those doing seedings and trying to assess performance using RRI, RRI undervalues wins and losses and overvalues margin of victory (or defeat). A shortcut I like to take is to add 100 points to a team's tournament RRI score for winning, 50 for making finals, 25 for making semis. See <a href="http://parinella.blogspot.com/2007/10/open-seedings.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> for my earlier attempt to quantify this.parinellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802604259779936852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994039.post-61724004156104855442009-09-24T07:54:58.178-07:002009-09-24T07:54:58.178-07:00What does RRI mean, please?What does RRI mean, please?Richardnoreply@blogger.com