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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4944861, member: 1969"] [B] TLDR Version - The RPI Sort of Stank and could be gamed, or was just bad scheduling luck - it needed to be tweaked. The NET fixed those gaming issues but created the new problem of making some cupcake games that everybody is going to win, mean more if you blow them out more than others do.[/B] They will need to find a balance of the two. Maybe as you suggest, run the NET as it is now, run the RPI, average them and call that the new NET. Here were the biggest problem with the RPI 1) The RPI was more easily gamed by some conferences who tended to try to schedule heavily in the 125-200 sweet spot and add some of them as road games. The MVC was really good at this. 2) The RPI formula really punished teams that played a couple sub 300 teams, and sometimes that was just an element of bad luck as the game was scheduled well in advance and that team now sucking is beyond your control. 3) For mid majors and small conferences the RPI generally threw out garbage that the committee did not trust. You would see a 24-7 Texas St team at RPI #38, and the committee would auto toss the ranking as meaningless. Margin based rankings viewed as better ways to find the best of these teams. So on to the NET we went. Net Fixed #1 and #2, by basically saying, OK you can play a bunch of sub 2 teams instead of 150 teams, but you are going to have to beat them by 20 instead of 12, to earn the same rank In theory that makes sense. But it created a new problem. Whether its RPI #175 or RPI #325 all tourney level teams are going to win 98% of those games. The problem though as we are finding now, is that outperforming that "20" target, is just as important as outperforming a "pick Em" game for NET. So winning that game by 30 is just as good , beating a Q2 team by 10 points. As for factor #3, I don't think NET has really solved that issue. The committee gives no credit to small conference teams in that #35-#50 range... it still seems hesitant to do so, although those 2 or 3 smaller conference teams identified as #35-#50 in the NET each year, are better now than what the RPI spit out. [/QUOTE]

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