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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3020466, member: 1220"] I believe a major problem with the RPI could be corrected with an end of the season adjustment. The problem with the RPI is that for a top team beating a 150 rated team is not much harder than beating one rated 250, but the difference it makes to the RPI is considerable. Neither of those teams have a realistic chance of coming away with a win. So if scores do not matter what actual difference does it make if a team you beat is so far below you to have no impact. I would suggest that a realistic differential be established for each team at the end of the season. It would then eliminate any team that did not have reasonable chance to beat your team from both the wins and RPI . This would give a more realistic measure of a teams actual applicable strength of schedule. That way any team that was listed as more than say 150 points lower than you, on the RPI scale, would not be counted, unless it results in a loss. The 150 is just a example and would be adjusted based on the statistical history of a lower teams probability of victory against a higher rated team. This not only would eliminate cupcakes from counting as victories in ratings, but also eliminated them from counting against your RPI score. I believe that was the original purpose of RPI to eliminate the value of cupcake victories. [/QUOTE]