RPI is no more — at least for men’s basketball.
The NCAA announced a new ranking system to replace RPI, which had been used since 1981 by the Men’s Basketball Committee to determine at-large teams and seeding for the NCAA Tournament.
The new system will be called the NCAA Evaluation Tool — NET for short. Here’s how the NCAA described the metric.
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.