And... the #1 reason for switching from RPI to KRACH (or SON OF
KRACH)...

.........so us old alums won't confuse "RPI -The Rating" with "RPI -The School"......!!

I recall first joining the list and lurking and seeing sentences like:
"RPI's RPI would improve if .... " Needless to say it took me a second,
being a physicist and not a statistician, to figure out the difference :-)

Cheers,

Tony Buffa
RPI (Not Rensselaer) 1964

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> > Those of us who have been following HOCKEY-L (for longer than we'd like
> > to remember in some cases :-) know that there are far better rating
> > systems that have already been developed -- by participants on this
> > list!  I know that change can be difficult to accept, but it's *really*
> > time for the committee (and the NCAA) to step up to using a statisti-
> > cally sound methodology -- and "PWR using RPI + exceptions" isn't.
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