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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2114199, member: 1969"] At first I thought the same. But then I realized the RPI is not helping mid majors get in. The RPI meant nothing for them, because it was capturing a mixture of good Mid-Majors and not so good mid-majors in the 30-50 range. There is a whole bunch of them this year, It was and is an unreliable way to measure a team, So they ignored it, and it came down to a battle of quality wins which of course they will always lose. But if they come up with a trusted way to measure individual teams, then they can rely on that individual ranking as the main basis to differentiate amongst the mid majors and also as a way to compare to P5 schools-- for example St. Mary's and Valpo last year. So I agree that RPI shows more top 50 mid majors than KP. But if the committee ignores the RPI for them, how does it help? The new system will identify fewer teams, but maybe it will not be ignored for those teams. Again just speculation. [/QUOTE]