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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2639714, member: 199"] Interesting OP, but with a few flaws. Uconn for example has been incredible over the last decade and playing against Uconn for conferencemates has been a guaranteed loss most years, but has also been a guaranteed boost to their conferencemates RPI because of that 75% of RPI based on opponents and opponents records - Uconn's record is close to 1.00 (50% of the RPI for their opponent) each year and because they play a great OOC generally their opponents records are also very good as in .700-.800 (25% of the RPI for a Uconn opponent) in aggregate (OOC.) So the statement that not playing two games against similar teams (Louisville/ND) helps a conferencemates RPI is just not true - going 0-2 against a high win percentage team helps your RPI. As others say - the RPI concept is just a bad idea, especially in a universe as vast and diverse as D1 women's basketball 349 teams that stretch from Evansville 1-27, 0-18 in the MV, to Uconn at 34-0. Common opponents or even common experience is non-existent. There are certainly ways to 'game' the RPI, but it has to do more with the scheduling of OOC games than the conference games. The SEC often benefits because their lower quality teams have scheduled really really bad teams and come into conference play with gaudy records - MsSt and Georgia and ... used to be 13-0 or 12-1 before conference play and then go 4-12 in conference, but everyone else in the conference benefited from that 90-100% win percentage OOC when they played them. The best OOC schedule for weak P5 teams for their conference opponents is to schedule the top 3 teams from the 4 weakest conferences - you go 100%, and your opponents end up going 85% in their conference seasons. The rest of the conference gets 50% of your record and 25% of your opponents record in their RPI. [/QUOTE]

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