The home-road adjustment is NOT included in SOS, OWP or OOWP in WIS HD.  This is why your opponent's RPI is not what you want to focus on when scheduling.  They could be using the home-road adjustment to gain a better RPI in ways that do not help their opponent's RPI.  (Nothing wrong with that, in fact much of the advice above does just that.)  Their straight win-loss is much more important, it contributes to the 50% of RPI that is OWP.  Their contribution to the 25% or RPI that is OOWP is less important, in that the potential range for that value is limited and it counts half as much.

If you schedule sims, make sure they are heavy with upperclassmen.

Posted by nbstowman on 4/15/2011 9:52:00 AM (view original):
If you schedule sims, make sure they are heavy with upperclassmen.

true dat - nothing like scheduling what was a pretty good sim last year to find they've got 6 walkons this year...

Posted by dacj501 on 4/15/2011 11:13:00 AM (view original):

Posted by nbstowman on 4/15/2011 9:52:00 AM (view original):
If you schedule sims, make sure they are heavy with upperclassmen.

true dat - nothing like scheduling what was a pretty good sim last year to find they've got 6 walkons this year...

The best way to do this is to go to Team Ratings, then filter only juniors. Check each conference in your division to see who has the most juniors. It takes a little bit of time but it is worth it (and can be dangerous if your team isn't good enough to beat squads with 8-10 seniors) and you can almost always find those sub 100 rpi sims that beat up on other sims. Pulled off many soft schedules at Alcorn State in Phelan that had me RPI'ing in the 10-20 range each year after non conference was over. This is just for D1, though. Tried it once in D2 and it didn't work as well. 

For example, the first conference I checked in Phelan was the A10, and UMass has 7 juniors this year. There's not a lot of talent, but they will have a distinct IQ advantage over every other Sim they play next year and will probably get 13-16 wins easily on that fact alone.  

Another mistake that people make is they just find the sims with the most wins and schedule them the year AFTER all the upperclassmen leave. This is fine if there are still user coached kids left on the team, because they are generally better. But a lot of midmajors in D1 have been ghost towns for years on end so the entire roster is made up of Simmy recruited kids who are most likely terrible AND will have bad IQ's. That combined with the fact that other users in big 6 scheduling and handing a team to conference play 0-10 is why this is a bad idea.  I'm getting the other end of the spectrum with my VCU team that I just picked up in Tark. My recruits aren't bad, but the rest of the team was sim recruited and I was dumb and didn't check the non conference schedule before I applied. I got the job, now I'm facing Big 6 opponents who were looking for a cheap win and have a 1-7 start. 


http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=13909