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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3035690, member: 1220"] RPI's should just be a starting point in respect to determining the actual strength of schedule. It does not factor in some of the preseason cup cakes that some really good teams end up playing for a variety of reasons. Playing a very low rated team can bring someones RPI down considerably, while getting blown out by a highly rated team will bring it up. So in reality a top 50 team at the lower spectrum could be very mediocre and not as good as a team rated below them using the RPI gage. The committee does not seem quite as lazy as Creme so they are not going totally by the flawed RPI fomula. So when he quotes top 50 RPI wins as a major factor, he is just supporting the lazy and flawed criteria he uses. Someone who cherry picks stats to support his own perspectives has little to say about others methods. That does not make the Committee necessarily right, but using RPI to discredit them is a joke. [/QUOTE]