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Originally Posted by Indy Coug
Home teams win roughly 70% of the time in college basketball which correlates nicely with the 1.4/0.6 road-home weighting in the new RPI formula.
The top 8 seeds in this year's NCAA tournament went a combined 495-55 (0.900) at home this year.
The revision in the formula was ostensibly to reward teams that won on the road and also to incentivize bigger schools to play a higher ratio of road games, but there is no sign that the bigger schools have altered their scheduling strategy.
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If it is really part of a policy directive to get power teams to play more road games, then I am fine with it. However, it is over-compensating.