Experimental LRMC Rankings through games of 1/3/2011

LRMC is a college basketball ranking system designed to use only basic scoreboard data (which two teams played, whose court they played on, and (in the "pure" version) what the margin of victory was). For more information about LRMC's creators, how LRMC stacks up against other ranking systems, and the mathematics behind LRMC, please visit our LRMC Information Page.

We currently calculate three different versions of LRMC, plus a development/testing page:

• Pure LRMC is the most accurate predictor of NCAA tournament results, and uses exact margin of victory in its calculations.
• Capped LRMC uses a cap on the maximum margin of victory used in calculations. As the cap decreases, this version gets slightly less accurate than Pure LRMC, but still does well compared to other methods. The Capped LRMC pages use a limit of 15 points.
• LRMC(0) does not use margin of victory data at all in its calculations. It is somewhat less accurate than Pure LRMC, but is still competitive with many other methods, even ones that do use margin of victory.
• Experimental LRMC contains some new modifications to LRMC that are still under development. Preliminary results show that they might be slight improvements over Pure LRMC, but we're still in the testing phase.
• You are currently on the Experimental page.

Note on experimental methods: In preliminary testing, experimental method JzB might be slightly better at predicting individual game-by-game outcomes, while experimental method Tm might be slighlty better at predicting Final Four teams and the overall National Champion. We're still in the testing phase, though; neither method is fully proven like Pure LRMC yet.