I’m a State fan first, by a long way, before being a fan of, “the sport.” You think other fanbases care about “fairness” and “sportsmanship.” You think if we and OM or USM finished with similar records, but we beat them head to head, they say State deserves to be ranked ahead of us? Hell no!
But they don't claim this, do they? At least at this point in the season. And what you are claiming doesn't make sense either. The only thing that tells you whether a win is good at this point is the polls. So they are making a projection of who they think is good. They're not doing major shuffles based on early season losses. I'd prefer there be tons of early season moves in the polls (more so for football than baseball, but I'd be good if all of them took the position that you basically know nothing about the teams early in the year, and you need to make major updates based on games played). But for the approach they are saying they take, it looks more or less reasonable. I think they are a little extreme in not counting these early season losses, but baseball is not like football or basketball where it's mostly pretty clear early on who has talent. Figuring out that somebody that looks like a starting pitcher ace in practice doesn't have it between the ears can easily cost you three games. I suspect over time, their approach of assuming teams like LSU and Arkansas will figure it out and be good has turned out to be pretty accurate.
I agree. It's crazy to not have them in the top 10 at this point.
Oh, they are in the top ten. And you are wigging out because you think they may be as many as 6 spots too low as of March 11th. Perfectly reasonable on your part. I mean damn. It's not like there are going to be months of data to help dial in the rankings. There is definitely enough data to know right now who the top 6 teams in the nation are.
You don’t actually care about college baseball being fair, accurate, or even logical. They’re mean to you, so you should be mean back. Fairness is for suckers. Rules are for losers. If you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying. You are the Ric Flair of baseball fans. Woooo!
I think they're probably right about that. I think USM could host a regional, but I don't see them as a CWS team at all.
100%, I care about State. If we aren't playing I'm not watching.
Thís doesn’t look to be true. They are not listed in the top 20 of any reputable RPI source. What are you looking at?
Again, thís also doesn’t look to be true. What source are you referring too?
Oh, you know, just the official NCAA RPI for division one baseball (As of March 10th at least)
www.ncaa.com
Oh, you know, just the official NCAA RPI for division one baseball (As of March 10th at least)
DI Baseball Rankings - RPI | NCAA.com
Get updated NCAA Baseball DI rankings from every source, including coaches and national polls.
19th and 17th, yes ok I missed that. SOS is 50% of the formula.
We haven’t beaten anyone that is currently in the top 25. We’ve only beaten a couple of mid tier teams and played several trash teams. The best teams we’ve played- UCLA, Southern Miss, Arkansas- we’ve lost to all of them.
