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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3022845, member: 1220"] What I am saying is that the RPI stays as is except the adjustment is used by the selection committee for the purposes of rectification in order to eliminate games that give a false impression of the strength of the team via the won loss record of the teams they played. What it will do is eliminate cup cakes. You know those teams that have no chance in hell of winning. It also will eliminate then as counting as a win while also eliminating the negative impact on the final RPI. Therefor a team could play a tune up or do a favor for a coach without it negatively affecting their end RPI. Many of those really bad D1 teams are no better than D2 teams anyway. Those are not counted as wins by selection committee's right now anyway. The whole point of the RPI is to give a more rational picture to a teams won/lost record. They have always eliminated non D1 schools from their won lost record in respect to bracketing any way. All this does is to make the same sort of adjustment in respect to lower D1 teams that are also not competitive enough to deserve to be counted as a win. Any team in the top ten should have any team rated lower than 200 even count as a win. The bracketing committee does this anyway by punishing teams for weak schedules. What this will do is create a standard system for do so. It will eliminate those games both in wins and RPI handicapping. It does not eliminate RPI . it is still used but this would be used to create a more consistent measure of strength of schedule. You obviously have to have the RPI to begin with. The whole point is to eliminate cupcakes from a teams won lost record while also adjusting the negative impact those cupcakes would have on a strength of schedule. The do this anyway, but only in their heads, This would provide them a formula for doing so and create more consistency to how cup cake schedules are dealt with. What is considered a cup cake would of course vary depending on where they ended up on the RPI scale. This would have no real effect since the original RPI would still act as a starting point and the adjustment would only serve to eliminate a few non relevant games. It's not much different than eliminating the top and low scores in the Olympics. That is also nothing but an adjustment to create more consistency in scoring. [/QUOTE]

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