Does Opponents' Opponents' Win Percentage (OOWP) predict winners?
How good the opponents' opponents are — the second-order schedule strength in RPI.
Game Outcomes
Each point is a completed game — x: home team's season-to-date value entering the game, y: away team's. home win home loss
Based on 5403 of 5727 completed games where both teams entered with a season-to-date value.
How useful is it?
- AUC
- 0.646
- Better team wins
- 62.1%
- Games
- 5,403
A weak signal — better than a coin flip, but not by much.
Reading the chart: points below the dashed diagonal are games where the home team entered with the better value; a predictive stat shows more green there and more red above the diagonal. AUC summarizes exactly that separation — 0.50 is a coin flip, 1.00 is perfect.