RPI RANKING After week #3.
- Thread starter Mavrick69
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I can agree with this statement. If we are going to go all in on RPI being the measuring stick, then we need to do away with conferences and have teams schedule their season out. That being said...there has to be some sort of protection for teams that no one would want to schedule (the highland techs).
There would definitely need to be some discussions and working out of the kinks...but it may be the way to go. You can't tell someone you're going to seed them based off the RPI metric then force them to play in a conference where there are teams that kill their RPI. There has to be some way to allow scheduling flexibility.
At the same time...this is still early on in the RPI calculations...as the season goes on the seeding will work itself out. We have to be patient with the "system" now in it's first year. As time goes on adjustments will be made.
Remember how when we played 11 game schedules, you were able to drop a game for playoff seeding purposes? Maybe they should do that again, allow each team to drop one team from their playoff RPI calculations. Example: Shelby gets to drop Highland Tech. Shelby is forced to play them but it really hurts them come playoff time and their RPI. Game would obviously still count record wise, but not RPI wise.
After all the games are played, I would image that all the schools will play some terrible teams that brings down their RPI. MA will play Surry Central and Forbush who are bottom of conference teams. Shelby plays Highland Tech and Cherryville. Again, after more games are played, the RPI tends to get more accurate. What is hurting Shelby right now is their loses in games. Once they run the table in conference, their RPI will greatly improve.
RPI formula was also modified this year to: RPI = (.4 x WP) + (.4 x OWP) + (.2x OOWP).
If you look at the RPI or the seeding by GrizzleDevil, some of these teams that are seeded high, have no business even having a home game, but because they are 3-0 or 2-1 against some weak teams, they currently have a high RPI. I stated on another post, that I wouldn't even look at RPI until after week 7 (at the earliest).
RPI formula was also modified this year to: RPI = (.4 x WP) + (.4 x OWP) + (.2x OOWP).
If you look at the RPI or the seeding by GrizzleDevil, some of these teams that are seeded high, have no business even having a home game, but because they are 3-0 or 2-1 against some weak teams, they currently have a high RPI. I stated on another post, that I wouldn't even look at RPI until after week 7 (at the earliest).
One way to look at rpi is your non conference opponents and your conferences non conference record is going to play the biggest part. Because regardless if your in a strong or weak conference when it comes to conference play half the teams lose each week no matter what.
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