The RPI is a simplistic, arbitrary rating system that ignores margin of victory, ignores quality of opponents, and has no “right” balance. What is the proper weighting of a team’s winning percentage, its opponents’ winning percentage, and its opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage? 25-50-25? 40-40-20? Your “right” balance is likely different than someone else’s “right” balance, and there is no statistically valid method of assigning weights to those 3 variables; it is totally arbitrary. And basic algebra demonstrates that one can get different results by changing the weighting of the variables when presented with the same data. I am no fan of MaxPreps rankings, but the RPI is not the answer. The one advantage the RPI has over MaxPreps is transparency, but that hardly makes up for its deficiencies
Hard to believe, but true. I never thought they would compete for a championship this year but did expect much better performance with everything that has been provided to that staff. I had my doubts about Napier early on as when he was recruiting our school he was focused on the wrong one of our 2 D1 defensive lineman in 2022. It made no sense as it showed his poor judgement in evaluating talent, a key to top coaches that don't simply rely on rankings by so-called experts.
The fhsaa is basically just doing what the people in Tallahassee want at this point but I agree that I wish someone would make a new league and push the middle man out of the way