I seem to recall a school making the playoffs that year we used RPI with an 0-10 record. Maybe they were 1-9? Its hard to think that far back. Anyway, the RPI was rewarding bad teams that played opponents who they had no business playing.
We have SSAA but it hasn't gotten large enough yet. Because of that, SSAA still has some of the same issues as FHSAA. I'm told the SSAA director is on this message board. I would like to see SSAA take some of these ideas and put them in practice.
I've suggested multiple ideas that break away from the norm and that would fix a lot of the current issues and our incompetent state leadership won't touch it
does it really matter something has been stated hundreds of times? It still doesn’t make it right. I can still have my own opinions. You don’t have to read the damn thing.
Meanwhile, the same group of people keep coming up with the most inane and nonsensical ways to handle the playoffs and the classifications. Wonder if that has any direct correlation to the huge drop in coverage and popularity of the sport over the last 10 or 15 years?
1) I will defer to the mathematicians/statisticians on this board as to whether including margin of victory (up to a point; running clock – 35 points) provides more accuracy/validity in computer rankings
2) I am not convinced that RPI can adequately differentiate between a 10-0 Armwood and a 10-0 Baker
3) I am not convinced that anyone can establish the “right” weighting of the RPI variables, either statistically or by one’s own opinion.