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In article <[log in to unmask]>, Gary Hatfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Just a few thoughts on the "unfair" RPI. Any ranking formula will >have strength of schedule or it will not. If the NCAA only considered >winning %, then there would be no incentive to play Michigan or Maine >when you could schedule Kent State or US international instead (names >picked to avoided getting flamed). We would see the kind of silly >nonconference scheduling that we used to see in college hoops. On the >other hand, I cannot think of a system that rewards strength of schedule >that could avoid the leap-frogging problem. I think an ideal system would be something like this: A team gains points for each win. More points for beating a better team. A team loses points for each loss. More points for losing to a worse team. Ties would probably average the two. I don't know how this would be constructed, but it doesn't seem that hard. Maybe I'll work on it over spring break... -- - Andrew Brecher ([log in to unmask]) <insert disclaimer here>