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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3474837, member: 6927"] How To Game the RPI 101, with Professor Plebe. First and foremost, schedule OOC games against the best teams from bad conferences -- i.e., teams that aren't as great as their W-L records will make them look. Opponents' W-L record is by far the weightiest component (50%) of RPI. Maximize that component without suffering too many losses, and you're well on your way to maximizing your RPI. CMU's OOC schedule includes: [LIST] [*]Green Bay (19-13) (they turned out worse than expected) [*]Louisville (28-4) (not from a bad conference, but still an RPI booster) [*]Western KY (22-7) [*]Dayton (25-8) [*]Marist (26-4) [*]South Dakota St (22-10) (also worse than expected, but still an RPI helper) [*]Bethune-Cookman (21-6) [*]UCF (20-10) [/LIST] If CMU hadn't lost 3 of their last 4 games, their RPI would've been in the mid-teens, exactly where UCF was last year. [/QUOTE]