If you’ve been paying attention to ESPN’s college basketball broadcasts over the past few years, you’ve probably noticed that they love talking about where teams rank in BPI. This is, to a certain degree, just advertising for themselves. ESPN invented BPI and of course they’re going to use BPI as opposed to RPI or KenPom or Sagarin or whatever ranking metric.
Anyway, on Sunday morning, ESPN’s Jeff Borzello published an article about BPI, as The Worldwide Leader’s resident math nerds finished adjustments to the system following transfers and so on and so forth. The rankings have been tweaked and the algorithms have been.