[jetpilot]

The only GOOD thing about the RPI is that teams who have the best record against a strong RPI can EARN home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Don’t take that away!

You are giving RPI way too much credit. Teams with lower RPI beat higher RPI teams constantly. Just look at Paintsville beating KCD by 50 in the 2020 championship. KCD higher RPI and if that game would have been in the semis Paintsville would have had to have gone on the road to KCD. So you can't rely on RPI to reward home field to the superior team. Plus people have figured out how to manipulate RPI now and that's how most teams make their schedule.