I haven't weighed in awhile and now that we are using this up here in NW OH wanted to give my perspective as a former head coach still helping out. So there is alot of argument about the RPI and how teams that play a tough schedule but play close games with some losses are getting the short end- I disagree with this because from a coaching side every year your team is in one of three buckets. Either you are a dominant team that is a top 1, 2, or 3 in the District and you know that going in. You could be a middle pack team where you could be anywhere from 4-8 or you are a lower end team seeds 10-20. ( We have about 20 teams in two districts in our draw) In years where we were loaded and knew we were good, we would try to beef up the schedule and seeding didn't matter much because we weren't afraid to play anyone and would be 1,2,or 3 seed most likely. If we had a down year team then maybe we hoped the seeding would allow us to win a game against someone we could beat but most likely after that the next bracket would have a top 6 type team we would have to knock off. Or most years we were in the middle, where we tried to find the path that could get us the furthest, this was always interesting and fun and matchups really mattered here. So in reference to me not agreeing that the 0-22 team with all two point losses team is hurt by this, I would argue that they benefit from being seeded maybe 9th in a district vs 5th for example. Although I am winless but (played the hardest schedule in the state for example) I would love to be a lower seed (9th) and see where everyone ahead is on the board and then know that most likely I'm stronger than seeds maybe 4-8 for example. Then it comes down to what it always does, the games have to be played and won. For me over the past 23 years I've been doing this I've had teams where we were a 4 seed but a weak 4 seed and teams 5, 6, 7 would jump us game 1 (which I hated) but some years where we might be 7 but felt underseeded we could pick better who we would play or know the path better and we would also scare away the teams after us too. So I would prefer to be underseed than overseeded in many cases. I know this may be weird logic but I think this is how most coaches view this- in down years you hope to win a game or two, in great years you generally know you can make a run and will eventually run into the other top seeds in District finals or regionals etc and the middle teams are looking for ways to get a District championship and finding the right path/matchups plays a big role here.