Hoping someone can answer this question. Despite 3 of its last 4 series against teams with RPIs of 216 or higher, Team X has had an RPI in the low to mid 30s for the past several weeks. Yes, it swept all three series but so what. The one series it played against a team with an RPI of mid 60s (at the time), Team X lost 2 of 3 games. How does Team X RPI not go up after playing teams with such high RPIs?
My best guess is that X has a very good W/L record and a very, very good non-conf SOS to go with a good overall SOS. In the RPI formula those things combine to produce RPI.Hoping someone can answer this question. Despite 3 of its last 4 series against teams with RPIs of 216 or higher, Team X has had an RPI in the low to mid 30s for the past several weeks. Yes, it swept all three series but so what. The one series it played against a team with an RPI of mid 60s (at the time), Team X lost 2 of 3 games. How does Team X RPI not go up after playing teams with such high RPIs?
We are 5/6 weeks into conference season so these bad RPIs they've been playing must be conference foes. That would mean X piled up RPI credentials prior to playing them and is still living off that.
Also, we shouldn't think "so what" when X swept three series out of four recent series. That is racking up the wins which helps to compensate for the hit X took in SOS. That's not a 'so what', that's kind of a big deal.
So I'm guessing that, by mid season, X had banked a lot of RPI coin and the hit they then took playing those bad teams brought their bank down a bit but didn't overpower it. In this way, I would say that X has played the RPI game very smartly. And again, those sweeps mattered.
BTW, do the Toreros know you call them Team X? 
Lol! Busted
