Football RPI

Through 2026-10-15 · computed 2026-10-15 18:07

Two ratings, the same formula. KHSAA RPI is the official one, and it counts every out-of-state opponent as a fixed .5106 team however good or bad they really are. True RPI uses that opponent’s real winning percentage instead. Δ is the gap between them, and it is zero for any team that has not left the state.

Class 1A, all 32 ranked teams. The # column is the rank within the class; State is the same team’s place among every school in Kentucky.

Class 1A Football RPI standings, KHSAA and True
#	Team	State	W-L	WP	OWP	OOWP	KHSAA RPI	True RPI	Δ
1	Pikeville	1	6-1	1.127	0.759	0.626	0.848	0.850	+0.002
2	Kentucky Country Day	11	5-2	0.987	0.687	0.576	0.759	0.757	-0.002
3	Sayre	14	7-0	1.021	0.638	0.566	0.751	0.748	-0.002
4	Bethlehem	15	7-0	1.270	0.361	0.590	0.748	0.748	—
5	Holy Cross (Louisville)	17	4-2	0.870	0.712	0.590	0.731	0.710	-0.020
6	Middlesboro	18	7-0	1.089	0.511	0.564	0.729	0.716	-0.013
7	Dayton	19	7-0	1.270	0.354	0.536	0.729	0.729	—
8	Paintsville	20	8-0	1.078	0.505	0.559	0.722	0.721	-0.001
9	Raceland	23	5-2	0.905	0.598	0.624	0.713	0.715	+0.002
10	Eminence	49	6-1	0.903	0.431	0.533	0.627	0.629	+0.003
11	Williamsburg	56	5-1	0.858	0.405	0.569	0.613	0.612	-0.001
12	Holy Cross (Covington)	64	5-2	0.757	0.504	0.522	0.598	0.594	-0.004
13	Nicholas County	70	5-3	0.799	0.452	0.499	0.588	0.589	+0.001
14	Harlan	80	5-2	0.736	0.453	0.493	0.564	0.534	-0.030
15	Bishop Brossart	83	3-4	0.471	0.683	0.520	0.560	0.559	-0.001
16	Ludlow	85	5-2	0.736	0.454	0.469	0.557	0.557	—
17	Hazard	86	2-5	0.467	0.639	0.561	0.556	0.556	—
18	Newport Central Catholic	123	2-5	0.393	0.570	0.504	0.488	0.487	-0.001
19	Fairview	130	4-4	0.559	0.401	0.499	0.486	0.496	+0.011
20	Ballard Memorial	143	3-3	0.525	0.326	0.531	0.457	0.459	+0.002
21	Campbellsville	149	2-4	0.445	0.381	0.534	0.449	0.449	—
22	Newport	154	2-5	0.307	0.517	0.522	0.445	0.444	-0.001
23	Paris	161	2-5	0.286	0.541	0.479	0.433	0.432	-0.001
24	Fulton County	173	2-4	0.333	0.411	0.507	0.412	0.396	-0.016
25	Pineville	174	2-6	0.250	0.505	0.492	0.412	0.399	-0.013
26	Bellevue	175	1-5	0.167	0.626	0.446	0.411	0.411	—
27	Frankfort	177	1-6	0.143	0.648	0.429	0.406	0.406	—
28	Lynn Camp	203	1-6	0.143	0.501	0.433	0.355	0.356	+0.001
29	Trimble County	207	1-6	0.143	0.412	0.478	0.338	0.338	—
30	Russellville	209	0-7	0.000	0.617	0.397	0.335	0.337	+0.002
31	Caverna	217	0-7	0.000	0.442	0.452	0.290	0.289	-0.002
32	Berea Community	220	0-7	0.000	0.402	0.425	0.268	0.269	+0.001

What these numbers mean

RPI is 35% your own winning percentage, 35% your opponents’, and 30% your opponents’ opponents’. Margin of victory never counts. Beating someone by forty is worth exactly what beating them by one is worth.

Every team is rated against the whole state, whoever it plays. Splitting the table by class recalculates nothing: it shows the same ratings, narrowed to the teams a school is actually measured against in the postseason.

Under the KHSAA formula every out-of-state opponent counts as a fixed .5106 team, however good or bad they actually are. KHSAA sets that figure from how Kentucky schools have really done against outside opposition and reviews it every two years. True RPI replaces that one assumption with an adjusted out-of-state opponent winning percentage, and Δ is the difference. A positive delta means the fixed value is costing that team; a negative one means it is helping.

That adjusted percentage is the opponent’s record with only the game against this team removed, which is what the formula asks for. An opponent who played two Kentucky schools is therefore counted differently by each of them.

Everything else in True RPI is the KHSAA calculation unchanged, and the name is about that one input, not a claim to be a better rating system. We hold out-of-state opponents’ records but not their opponents’ opponents, so the last 30% of the formula still holds an out-of-state opponent’s schedule at the fixed value. True RPI is the KHSAA rating with one input corrected, not an independently calculated rating.

24 teams shown here played someone from out of state, so the assumption is actually moving their number.

A team with any missing score is not ranked at all, rather than ranked on incomplete data.