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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2090402, member: 199"] I'm saying that using 'top 50 record' is an issue because you are using RPI to organize a teams record without really focusing on the fact that the teams in that 'top 50' are there because of the blunt instrument - someone who lost to Temple and beat Cal will be assumed to have a worse resume than the one that beat Temple and lost to Cal when the two are probably relatively the same. I know they look past the RPI when actually selecting teams and ranking them, but I suspect there are a lot of statements and discussion that start with 'they went 10-4 against the top 50, and only played one team outside the top 200' or 'they had 10 games against the top 50 and another 7 against 100' It gets down to the kind of thing I actually posted - the AAC has a stronger RPI than the Big10 which is a nice little thing to say about a conference that everyone dismisses as weak. But ... do we actually think that team by team the Big10 is worse than the ACC ... probably not. [/QUOTE]