In the past, PWR was overly reliant on RPI
by Mr Wednesday (2022-05-09 22:58:59)

In reply to: why can't men's lax use a pairwise system like ice hockey?  posted by melanzana


Which had major weaknesses in dealing with the limited out-of-conference crossover between teams.

And even the "common sense" common opponents criterion could be skewed by the number of games played against particular teams.

The one good thing about it is that everyone knows who will be in the field after the last game is played, and the only suspense is about the discretionary choices in seeding.