Posted by themonstars on 11/22/2014 2:08:00 AM (view original):
To be fair Mets, most teams schedule that way with revenue as the bottom line. Schools make way more money with a home game than with a road or neutral site game. So, most major powerhouses need to maximize revenue by playing most of their non-conference games at home. Likewise, mid-majors and lower tiered schools happily play those road games as the host school typically gives them a six figure payday for showing up, so everyone maximizes revenue this way.
Sure, some teams schedule with the RPI in mind. But, powerhouse schools are mostly worried with their finances, knowing their conference slates give them plenty of strong opponents...unless they're in the SEC.
of course the real life pattern of big programs scheduling home games is revenue driven
but, my point is why is it worse in HD to have lots of away games vs real life lots of home games? what is broken about this effect? one could just as well say that wanting lots of home games is a problem
for my own teams, I try to adjust our noncon schedule depending on how good I think my team will be - more SIMs if we are going to be weak. Of course, this is all imprecise - you schedule against a human coach but he moves up and you have a SIM, you think your team will be strong but a couple of marginal EE's leave and you are not...etc