I need some basic RPI instruction. How can State’s RPI be 72 and Miami’s 75 when our schedule strength is much stronger and we’ve won the same percentage of games played?
The formula was changed during the era of the Great Herb Debate to use adjusted winning percentage:
Home win/Road loss = 0.7
Neutral win/loss = 1.0
Road win/home loss = 1.4
Also don’t forget that all of the numbers are rankings, not the calculated numbers. Sometimes there is a big gap between one ranking and the next and sometimes the difference is in the fourth decimal place.
So I expect your answer is somewhere between those two facts.
