Are we going to continue this stupid war?
Let's take a bunch of teams(group A) that have 50-50 records against each other. Now, let's take another group (B) of teams that have 50-50 records against each other.
How do you compare all of the teams since they only play within their own group?
Now, let's let play members of group A vs group B. But, let's only have them play at the home fields of Group A. Which group will have the better record given what we know of home field advantage?
You have consistently wanted to endorse a system that many of us feel rewards Group A for remaining at home.
You will never win this argument because I think it is too stupid to consider any discussion. Fix the rpi.
I will agree that the rpi probably needs to be enhanced but rpi is presently very comprehensive in its analysis. You keep moaning about home field advantage for the SEC. Look at the numbers in 2018 look at the final top ten and the number true road games they played. They are FSU 21, Oregon 16, UCLA 15, OU 13, Washington 19, Florida 19, ASU 13, Georgia 13, South Carolina 20, Tennesssee 17, LSU 16, Arizona 17, Kentucky 21, A&M 15 and Alabama 20.
Do you observe that 4 of the top 6 teams in number of road games played are SEC teams and 2 are Pac 12 teams. The three teams with the lowest number of road games are Georgia, ASU and OU. Playing road games is not an issue with SEC and Pac 12 teams it is a strength.
They play more road games, they play more top 25 teams, they play more top 50 teams and 6 SEC teams and 3 Pac 12 teams played more top 100 teams than the Sooners. No top team goes on the road less than OU.
It is not the rpi that is the big problem it is the weak conference schedule of the Big 12, ACC and B1G that distorts the rankings to the favor of the SEC and Pac 12.
Hint three road games at top ten Florida, Georgia, South Carolina or Tennessee is more significant than a neutral site game against top 10 ASU, UCLA, Arizona or a couple of home games against South Carolina.
What you have is totally an undocumented opinion that the rpi is distorted with no statistical evidence to support your position. What the NCAA has is decades of rpi seedings and WCWS tournament results to support the accuracy of their seedings. Your position is very weak.
But I too would like to see frequent rpi enhancements to what I think would be better but I too like you have no evidence that the changes would improve the accuracy of the rpi. My opinion like yours are both worthless and substantiated by nothing. The rpi is high accurate when comparing annual seedings to annual results for the last 20 years. It is what it is.
Hopefully White will improve Texas and OSU will continue to improve where both are top 15-20 teams on a consistent basis. If that happens most of the advantage of the SEC and Pac 12 in scheduling will go away and so will both your and my concerns regarding the rankings/seedings.
