When you play a game has no effect on RPI ratings.

Where you play a game (home, neutral, away) has some effect, but the
size of the effect is not disclosed by the NCAA.

When you play a game has no effect on PWR ratings, but it used to have
such a component (even uglier than the over/under 0.500 RPI that I
recently described in another article.

cheers, wayne

james acheson wrote, in part,  on 2/18/2005 10:28 AM:

>     which numbers does the NCAA take into consideration for the
>     calculations?
>
>     the RPI at the time of the contest (i.e. when ND beat Maine for
>     the first time, Maine was undefeated, and so was ND... then the
>     next night Maine lost to an undefeated team.
>
>     does North Dakota's current record get factored into Maine's
>     RPI/PWR calculations? or the numbers at teh time of the losses?
>
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