K-State’s Hughes proposes changes to RPI as schedule intent becomes useful tool • D1Baseball

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Kendall Rogers – May 27, 2023

ARLINGTON, Texas — I would be filthy rich if I had a dollar for every time a coach has criticized the use of the RPI as a postseason metric over the last 20 years.

If I’m being perfectly honest, most coaches I’ve talked to aren’t sure what they’d do to change the RPI, or what they would implement in place of the RPI. Some talk about ISR, others about ELO, but at the end of the day, someone somewhere will find some sort of biases with those metrics, too.

Agree or not, Kansas State head coach Pete Hughes is the[…]