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The top two teams in the Big West standings are atop of a newest bracketology metric.
Long Beach State and Hawai’i received the highest rankings in the season’s first KPI that was released on Tuesday.
The KPI is a ranking system that evaluates every match result on a scale with the best positive result receiving about a 1.0 score and the worst possible result garnering about a negative-1.0 score. Among the variables used to determine a match result score includes opponent’s winning percentage, opponent strength of schedule, point differential, match location.
Long Beach State earned the No. 1 ranking with a .642 KPI percentage – edging out No. 2 Hawai’i by .024 percentage points. Both the Beach and the Rainbow Warriors are the only teams with more than a .550 KPI percentage.
Four Big West teams are in the top seven of the KPI with UC Irvine at No. 4 and UC San Diego at No. 7.
UCLA at No. 3 and USC at No. 6 are the top two MPSF schools in the KPI rankings. Loyola also is the highest ranked MIVA team at No. 5.
This is the second season the NCAA men’s volleyball committee has included KPI as a criteria category to determine the NCAA Tournament field.
The KPI is an enhanced selection criteria compared to the current RPI system. The RPI rankings does not factor items like margin of victory or match location into its mathematical equation.
The KPI will be updated daily throughout the college men’s volleyball season.
KPI rankings (April 1)
1. Long Beach State
2. Hawai’i
3. UCLA
4. UC Irvine
5. Loyola
6. USC
7. UC San Diego
8. BYU
9. McKendree
10. Lincoln Memorial
11. Grand Canyon
12. Pepperdine
13. Lewis
14. CSUN
15. Ohio State
16. Mount Olive
17. Ball State
18. UC Santa Barbara
19. Stanford
20. George Mason
21. Lindenwood
22. Princeton
23. Long Island
24. Belmont Abbey
25. Harvard
26. Purdue Fort Wayne
27. Queens
28. Penn State
29. NJIT
30. Maryville
31. Fort Valley State
32. St. Thomas Aquinas
33. Charleston
34. Tusculum
35. Catawba
36. Merrimack
37. Daemen
38. Saint Francis
39. Barton
40. Quincy
41. Rockhurst
42. Sacred Heart
43. Missouri S&T
44. Fairleigh Dickinson
45. Concordia
46. North Greenville
47. Vanguard
48. Menlo
49. Erskine
50. Barry
51. Benedict
52. D’Youville
53. Edward Waters
54. Jessup
55. Emmanuel
56. Lees-McRae
57. Roberts Wesleyan
58. Thomas More
59. Dominican
60. King
61. Central State
62. Roosevelt
63. American International
64. LeMoyne-Owen
65. Morehouse
66. Kentucky State