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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3420611, member: 9403"] This is excellent analysis - many thanks! I've always viewed RPI as the tool that compromises between a statistical measure of the best team and a reward for teams that "scheduled tough" or at least don't "schedule easy." Now, there's a loophole whereby teams can schedule against winning teams in bad conferences and it stuffs the RPI more than it should, so it's not perfect at incentivizing scheduling up, either. All things considered, however, I'm not opposed to RPI docking Baylor a bit for scheduling so many little sisters of the poor. IMHO, WCBB is hurt by two main factors: ugly, lopsided scoresheets that suggest the sport is not credible beyond a handful of teams, and grossly sub-30% shooting in televised games. More than anything else, those two factors, I believe, give haters cause to hate. Baylor beating up on little sisters of the poor -- who shoot at around 20-25% and have no business being on TV, but who will almost inevitably be televised at least sometimes because they're playing Baylor -- provides that ammunition. If RPI dings Baylor for it, fine by me. Incidentally, Tara has never copped to this, but I have watched Stanford's substitution patterns for well over a decade now, and it seems pretty clear to me that Tara likes to avoid winning by much more than 30 if she can help it. Once Stanford is up 30, the first string is on the bench for the night. Some like Mulkey (and often Geno) do not seem so inclined, and I personally don't think it's a great look for the sport. [/QUOTE]

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