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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4650830, member: 44"] It was done by consent. If LIU wanted to play the game, we would have. It's not like UConn just called them and said that they were out of luck. I do think that the way RPI is impacted by low seeded teams at the end of the regular season is inconsistent with its intention. RPI is intended as a methodology for assigning value to wins and losses. If you play all low ranked teams, it makes sense that an otherwise deceptively high winning percentage be discounted. Late in the season, however, playing and beating low ranked teams actually serves to discount the rest of your schedule. That is an unintended result. You can certainly argue that if a team wants to avoid that result they should simply schedule stronger teams, however, given that games are scheduled years ahead and baseball rankings can be somewhat volatile that's harder to do in practice than it is in theory. The solution, it seems to me, would be to allow a team to designate a certain number of games on their schedule as "non-countable" in their record for that year. The results, both wins and losses, wouldn't be included in the records for postseason consideration purposes and a, correspondingly, would not be used in determining the teams strength of schedule for RPI purposes. To prevent excessive gamesmanship that designation would need to be prior to the games being played. I'm just spit balling here, but that feels as if it might be a reasonable solution. Of course, for teams with stronger conference schedules, it may not be perceived as a significant issue. [/QUOTE]

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