for bubble teams and the VCU's of the world I see. On the column of "good wins" come tourney time, VT will have Duke, Michigan (perhaps) and other ACC teams...and some CUSA or A10 bubble team will list "Middle Tennessee" in the same vein as Duke. It's such a scam. Their best win is Vandy, and they lost to Tennessee State and Ga State.. yet their RPI is 21st.. LMAO
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Is this rant in response to something? A story somewhere? Can you provide a link or some form of context?
I saw it on Buzzfeed.
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If no /s, a lot of gifs or videos illegally put on youtube mirror the presentation so it is tougher to search for it.
Is that the reason? I always thought it was to skirt copyright infringement lawsuits. If you modify the original in some way, so the theory goes, you have created something new, and are therefore not violating the letter of the law. That's why you see a lot of video clips on youtube that have been turned black-and-white or have the audio out of sync with the video. It's a flimsy argument, IMHO, but it supposedly works.
Everything you described has to do with Content ID, which is the system Youtube uses that copyright owners can pay to use to track down infringing content. It's a service that crawls Youtube for things that come within a certain percentage of matching copyrighted audio and/or video. People come up with ways to get around it, which causes Youtube to improve the algorithms, which in turn cause people to come up with new ways to get around it.
Merely making cosmetic changes to something does not change the fact that you're violating copyright. There's a number of ways you can qualify for Fair Use, but it takes a little more effort than a simple video transformation.
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Stay strong, Hokie Nation.
You guys are razor sharp today.. but being Friday I can understand.. to recap for you.. \
1. It would be cool if VT made the NCAA tourney one day
2. When VT is on the bubble, we never get selected
3. VT plays basketball in the ACC, yet has an SOS above 200 and an RPI well below said team- Middle Tennessee Sate
4. My point is that had we beaten them instead of Duke and simply scheduled Dayton instead of Nebraska, our RPI would be much better and a Syracuse type 9-9 ACC record might get us in...
5. It would be cool if VT played in the NCAA tournament sometime in our lifetimes- you know be part of the whole march madness thing.
6. Middle Tennessee State is not good at basketball and would finish 12th or below in the ACC- but is in better shape for the tourney than we are at this point because of the bogus RPI
Got it? This is the basketball forum, correct?
This would be an awesome OP.
So you're actually serious?
1. Yes.
2. Only when Greenberg is our coach.
3. Dunno where you got your numbers, but we are #96 in SOS. MTSU is #40. We have similar records, and our RPI is #45 and they are #21. Makes sense.
4. We didn't schedule them or Dayton, so it doesn't matter, and a 9-9 record still probably gets us in the conversation.
5. Yes. Also we will probably be in the NCAAT again sometime in our lifetimes, unless you become terminally ill or have a tragic accident within the next few years, in which case my preemptive condolences.
6a. MTSU isn't terrible at basketball, Sagarin lists them at #61 out of 351.
6b. RPIforecast.com uses Sagarin ratings to project the rest of the season, and they have a "projected RPI" of 43.8, squarely on the bubble.
6c. RPI is only one of a large number of factors the committee uses when filling out the bracket. I've seen teams well into the 20s in RPI be left out of the tournament. On the flipside, I've seen teams in the 70s earn at-large berths.
6d. By the way, RPIforecast.com lists our "Projected Out-Of-Conference SOS" as #300. We need to get better at scheduling, this is no secret. Playing a ton of RPI 300+ teams is hurting our own RPI, and the Selection Committee understands.
In summary, Keep Calm and Trust Buzz.
RPI is such a nonsense stat that it drives me nuts. Our expected RPI has us missing the tournament
Well why didn't you just say that to being with...
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On the positive side, we'll most certainly get more credit for beating BC this year than we did last year.
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I came because the title seemed interesting or something and I stayed to leg all the gifs.
This is the SEC football model. Play a bunch of scrubs, then keep repeating the conference superiority mantra. I mean after the ACC put, what, 5? ACC teams in the sweet 16 last year, there should clearly be 14 ACC teams in the tourney this year.
Of course there should not be 14 ACC teams in- not when you have to save spots for Middle Tennessee and Tulsa
For everybody that hates the committe using RPI:
"According to an article posted on NCAA.com on Friday, Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's senior vice president of basketball, and Jim Schaus, Ohio's athletic director and a member of the NCAA tournament selection committee, will meet with Jeff Sagarin (Sagarin), Kevin Pauga (KPI), Ken Pomeroy (KenPom.com) and Ben Alamar (ESPN's BPI) to discuss the selection process and consider a new measuring stick."
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/18468008/ncaa-tou...