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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5014236, member: 1969"]
You can't use the RPI anymore to evaluate teams, because teams are no longer scheduling in accordance with it.  If the RPI Existed, teams wouldn't play as many Q4 teams at home in OOC (and this isn't just the B12, but they are at the forefront) they would revert back to the old way of gaming the RPI - beating mismatched Q3 teams at home.

And trust me the RPI could be gamed just as easily as the NET ... probably more easily... the teams that did best in the RPI were those that could schedule Q3 or teams in the low Q4's that were easy wins at home instead of bottom half Q4 teams.    Is beating mismatched Q3 teams at home, better than more mismatched Q4 teams.   If I had to choose sure, but it was still a silly way for teams to get ahead of others, when they are all easy wins for a tourney level team.

Note one system punishes Q4 games, and heavily rewards playing Q3 games at home.
The other system rewards Q4 games (since they are easier to control your narrative with blowouts), and doesn't really give any benefit to Q3 games.
A system shouldn't heavily reward winning a bunch of either games.

Hedge them against each other with NET being calculated as (1/2 Current NET + 1/2 RPI)  and perhaps teams will be encouraged to play more Q1 and Q2 games in OOC play.   But at least the impact of Q4 blowouts would be minimized.
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