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Effectively, the RPI ratings are going to reward “punching down” i.e. a better 1A team scheduling a higher class weaker team they know they have a better chance of beating, it order to increase their RPI rating, and therefore increase their likelihood of home field advantage in the playoffs due to said RPI ratings influencing their seeding. This is the way I’m understanding Patriot’s argument. Am I correct, Patriot? If so, I absolutely agree with you. If the RPI is not going to influence who gets into the playoffs, it’s one thing. But when it influences the location of games being played, then there is the whole matter of expenses to the schools involved, unfairly rewarding schools who have artificially inflated their rating to get the gate, and increasing travel costs, inconveniences such as logistics, and so forth, then it becomes a really bad thing.

Yes but what are the chances the schools that do this even make it to the third or fourth round ?