About The RPI Ratings

The RPI ratings were created by the NCAA, and used to be considered by the NCAA tournament selection committee during the selection and seeding process. They have been replaced by the NET Rating, which does not have an easily reproducible formula. We publish the RPI ratings here not because we think they are good ratings, but because in the past they have been useful when trying to predict the decisions of the selection committee. In addition, the team sheets used by the selection committee reportedly still display a Strength Of Schedule ranking that's derived from the old RPI.