UC Santa Barbara RPI

[Joe Mayo]

I've been reading the pack for 8 years or so and decided to make my first post. Avid State baseball fan. Haven't missed many games since I really started following them in 97 when I was in Little League. Great season to start my obsession.
Anyways i know RPI is constantly talked about but I just don't understand it at all. Aaron Fitt talked about UC Santa Barbara on his podcast today. They are 9th in RPI. They are 0-0 against top 25 RPI teams and 2-1 against RPI teams 26-50. 3 games against the top 50 with one of their best weekend series wins being UCONN who is 65 in RPI. We have played 16 games against top 25 RPI and 6 games against 26-50. 22 games against the top 50. How do we make sense of that? Long post for my first sorry. O yea my favorite player was Steve Gendron and my most disliked player was Bunky Keaton, but Collins is inching closer and closer if I have to watch him make another error or pop up another ball.

 

[57stratdawg]

They're 20-1 between home and neutral site games this year. That's pretty good.

Also, while they haven't played very many 1-50 teams, they've played 19 games against Top 100 teams. We're at 24. Plus, only 1 game against 200+ RPI teams compared to our 9.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Ask Siri "Why are fire trucks red?" No, seriously. The answer will make just as much sense as RPI, or QBR for that matter, calculations.

 

[patdog]

Plus, only 1 game against 200+ RPI teams compared to our 9.

This is HUGE for RPI. 200+ games absolutely kill you in RPI, even if you win. And we've even managed to lose one. How good would our RPI be if we replace 5 of those 200+ games with teams like Arkansas St., William & Mary, or Central Arkansas?

 

[EminenceBunt]

This is HUGE for RPI. 200+ games absolutely kill you in RPI, even if you win. And we've even managed to lose one. How good would our RPI be if we replace 5 of those 200+ games with teams like Arkansas St., William & Mary, or Central Arkansas?

Replace our wins against MS Valley and Alcorn with losses to Northwestern State and New Orleans, who are both top 50 RPI, and we are easily a top 10 RPI team right now. We have to avoid 200+ games for now on, especially SWAC teams. We don't owe anyone any "favors", there is no good reason for us to beat each of them 15-0 every year. We got unlucky with UCLA, USC and Oregon tanking, but the games against 200+ RPI teams were very avoidable and should be avoided at all cost in future scheduling.

 

[OleMissLogo]

Ask Siri "Why are fire trucks red?" No, seriously. The answer will make just as much sense as RPI, or QBR for that matter, calculations.

Numbers are hard!

 

[tatedog]

Replace our wins against MS Valley and Alcorn with losses to Northwestern State and New Orleans, who are both top 50 RPI, and we are easily a top 10 RPI team right now. We have to avoid 200+ games for now on, especially SWAC teams. We don't owe anyone any "favors", there is no good reason for us to beat each of them 15-0 every year. We got unlucky with UCLA, USC and Oregon tanking, but the games against 200+ RPI teams were very avoidable and should be avoided at all cost in future scheduling.

Actually we probably still owe Jackson State for donating gear to them that wasn't matching.**

 

[patdog]

Actually we probably still owe Jackson State for donating gear to them that wasn't matching.**

I don't think it's a coincidence which 1 of the 3 in-state SWAC schools we didn't play this year. Looks like we're out of the in-state SWAC school business for our I-AA football game too. Next four years, our I-AA games are Samford, Charleston Southern, Stephen F Austin, & Abilene Christian.

 

[dawgstudent]

If it were up to me - I would play the in-state SWAC schools in football every year. I-AA is I-AA as far as football is concerned. Samford = Alcorn State.

 

[patdog]

Samford would beat Alcorn St. by 30 points. The Gulf South Conference (Div. II) is a stronger conference than the SWAC. I think after a couple of the controversies that have happened when we have tried to help the in-state SWAC schools out, we've pretty much said 17 it, if that's the thanks we get, then y'all are on your own.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Numbers are hard!

So is probation. But you will get used to it