The tyrannical, decades-long reign of the RPI in men’s college basketball is over. The NCAA announced Wednesday that it is ridding the NCAA tournament selection process of the RPI and replacing it with a new, more advanced metric called the NCAA Evaluation Tool (catchy, huh)—or NET.
An adjustment of this sort has been on the horizon for a while—the NCAA consulted with both coaches and leading analytics experts like Ken Pomeroy to help develop a new tool, and this is the end result:
The NCAA Evaluation Tool, which will be known as the NET, relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.