By my estimation ...

[zephyr]

_ I've said for years that it is ridiculous to not weight road games more heavily than home games. That gives some programs who simply want to sit at home for all non-conference games ZERO incentive to travel and play on the road. If all of a sudden a home win has less value than a road win, maybe that changes their way of thinking. _

Exactly, and this should especially be true for football and basketball.

[GoneGolfin]

Every conference goes .500 within its own conference, somebody must win and somebody must lose unless there is a tie. To build your conference's RPI the conference must win non-conference games.

I still say that the 3rd part of the RPI formula (25% x opponents opponents winning %) will be stronger if UL was to lose to a conference opponent rather than a non-conference opponent.

The reason again and I will use the same example of Miami-Ohio and FAU. Our opponents opponents winning % is affected much more in a positive way with a lose to FAU rather than a lose Miami-Ohio because we play many more teams that have FAU on their schedule because they are in our conference.

Attaching this thread to the recent explanation.

Brian