But the FPI ranking also ranks the teams from 1-130+, based on their strengths. It just happens to also have the predictions stuff, too.Thanks for posting this. I haven't done recent research on the FPI system but it looks like they've become more transparent with how the system works and are including more components in their system now.
I still think you never got the point I was trying to make though: I wasn't saying that FPI was based on the simulations, but rather that the simulation-results were based on each team's FPI. And that FPI was built to feed its simulation-engine (and predict how the games and season would play out based on each teams likeliness to win or lose games) where F+ was built matter of fact to describe how team stacks up from 1-130+