Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
I don't really see it as a penalty, though. They're trying to weigh resumes. And the fact that our OOC schedule was insanely weak means our resume is considerably weaker.
Our resume indicates we should at least be right on the bubble. Nothing in our OOC indicates we aren't a tournament team, and our conference schedule indicates we are basically towards the bottom of the tournament field if you are looking to put the best teams in.

We're out because even though our conference games are a sufficient sample to show that we are a tournament quality team (if on the lower end of the at large bid quality), we are firmly out as of now because we are being punished for scheduling a ridiculously easy OOC. Not because we lost games OOC, but because we played bad teams.

And again, I'm ok with that, I just think the penalty should be lesser for a team that wasn't just ducking competition, but actually had a lot of uncertainty to address. Also, separately, for the RPI formula itself, I think RPI penalty should be cut off at some point; a top 25 team's game against a 225 RPI team shouldn't be treated any differently than a top 25 team's game against a 300 RPI team. A cupcake is a cupcake and you shouldn't make it unduly hard for the worst cupcakes to get people to play them).