[Hound05]

I don’t know who it was that said it earlier, but they were saying that OOWP shouldn’t be counted as far as RPI goes. I’m fine with it as it stands at .05% less than WP and OWP. But it definitely needs to be factored. If not, then you really can’t judge your WP right. Just say for example a team schedules Corbin. Corbin has played 10 horrible teams and sits a 10-0. You beat Corbin and you add that for your WP, and then you get to calculate theirs in the OWP.

Then you have Whitley who schedules boyle. Boyle is at 10-0 but unlike Corbin, they’ve beat trinity, st x, male, FD, etc. Whitley beats boyle and they get the same RPI numbers as the team who beat Corbin.

Now just to me, that just don’t seem right. Because teams would try to exploit that. They try on the current system. But it’s not easy. Look at Corbin last year, 10-0 and they finished 3rd. You take out OOWP, they might have been higher, probably not, because the OOWP balances the equation a little, but say they finished 1st. They schedule easy and get home the whole playoffs when boyle scheduled a tough season, lost 1 game and have to go on the road to if they drop to
3rd.
But I like it to because it balances it some. Say you scheduled a ridiculously hard schedule, say you had Trinity on there this year and teams like that. But everyone of them had a losing record, because they scheduled even harder. If your opponents who were great teams didn’t win a game, you’d have a very very low OWP. But they were tough teams. But the OOWP will make up for it some because it would be super high. Won’t count as much, but like OSH said, it can come down to the wire.