[killbilly usmc]

The RPI is not a rating or a poll. It is a ranking. A set of standings. 6 more weeks of games will go in and then week 3 of the playoffs it will determine seeding and home field. Its a calculator math formula and FAR FAR more fair and more interesting than odd/even region and district.

The only fair ranking as you call it is something that takes into account margin of victory. Going off records only is dumb. If 2 teams played the same exact opponents in the regular season, both go 10-0 should they be ranked the same if 1 team won every game by 1 point, and the other team won every game with a 2nd quarter running clock. This rpi system would rank them the same. They will give us b.s. about not wanting opponents to run up the score, but it's just a load of crap. Any idiot can make a better formula than rpi. Make it to where if a team gets a running clock the final margin doesn't matter. Then no one runs up the score. You could base the points for the rating system by how much a team wins by. If they win by running clock, then you base there points by how long it took to get to running lock. If a team scores 36 and gets the running clock at the very end of 2nd quarter. You take 36 points divide by 24 minutes you get 1.5 points scored a minute. 1.5 times 48 minutes in a game is 72. That's the rate they was outscoring there opponent at. For the ratings purposes you give that team a 72 point margin of victory, even though they played 3rd string 2nd half, and ended up just winning by 30. You have a descent way to compare teams without hurting little Johnny feelings by leaving the starters in and putting up 80 points.