[Hound05]

RPI is broken.  Frankfort beat Paris by like 50 and Paris is rated higher in the RPI lmao.

No not really. Like everyone says, RPI isn’t meant for the beginning or even 2/3’s of a the season. The more you play, the more it accurate. But even a majority of systems or metrics wouldn’t be right after 4-5 games. I do believe it does need some tweaking. But it’s so much better than cross dristric’ing. Now you have title games that are awesome for the most part.

At no point in a season should a team who lost to another team by 50 be ranked above that team.  If the rest of their games were cancelled for Covid, Paris would have a better rating than Frankfort, and that is as broken of a system as you can have. 

On top of that RPI only effects 2 rounds of playoffs, Regardless of RPI a good team in a good district has less chance of making it to RPI based games than a bad team in a bad district.  If you want to fix the system then you need to do away with inner district playoffs and seed the entire playoffs based off RPI.  In order to make that work you have to fix the RPI to begin with.

Respectfully I’m just gonna have to disagree with your first paragraph. That’s like saying in a basketball game, a horrible team makes the first couple of shots and goes up 6 to 0 in the first few minutes of the game, against the best team out there. The rest of the first qtr, and the other 3 qtrs will come into effect, and the truth will emerge. Imagine doing an NCAA basketball tournament with 64 teams 8 games in the season, and all the teams that would make it and the ones who should being left out. The more data you put in, the more accurate. 

i don’t understand your last statement. How is it easier for a bad team to make it?