The NCAA has finally announced that the RPI, the primary sorting tool for evaluating teams during the season, will no longer be in use this year. In its place, the NCAA has introduced the NCAA Evaluation Tool, also known as the NET.
The NET was approved in July, and is a more predicative model of ranking that relies upon game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses. In addition, it caps the score at 10 points in winning margins, so running up the score will mean zero to none.