Posted by dadbod on 7/24/2016 9:17:00 PM (view original):
Posted by darnoc29099 on 7/24/2016 7:55:00 PM (view original):
You schedule the 10 best teams you believe you can beat. Human, sim, top 25, bottom 25, whatever. Road games count more for RPI so scheduling road games always helps.
This is really sound advice. If your team isn't ready to play NT quality teams schedule some sims and win.
Not so black and white--road games that you can win. I schedule mostly home games--better chance of winning. The formula is close to this: Win approx. 6 games against quality teams and you are in the national tournament. 6! A quality team is rpi 1-100. Obviously 6 Ws against 94-99 may not exactly do it, but you get the main idea. Maybe need 5 if they are Top 25 teams.
How many games do you need against Top 100 teams to win 6 of them? You need 12 if you play .500 ball against those teams, etc.
If you don't play enough in conference, you'll need to beat them in OOC play.
Do your conference mates a favor (and they'll do you one) by going 10-0 in OOC play. That way you will all be quality opponents and teams that go 6-10 get to the NT even though none play very hard ooc teams.
Bottom line is you need to win.
But make no mistake RPI is not what you are going for. Quality wins are. There is a difference. HCA helps.