2006 Sunbelt Conference Baseball RPI

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All nine Sun Belt baseball teams have an overall record of .500 or better, as the league ranks seventh nationally in the latest "pseudo-RPIs The rest of the story

[El Sidonio]

Unless I missed some teams, here are the sbc teams' rpi's from boyds world (I think) as of this morning, 5/8:

Troy 29
UL 56
MTSU 88
UNO 127
ASU 131
WKU 192
UALR 203

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!

God Bless!

[Clutch0364]

On warrennolan we are at 52.

[Turner]

Sid can you insert USA they must be up there too.

[TuffGuy84]

Sid can you insert USA they must be up there too.

and FIU

[CAJUNJUDO]

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Conference RPI = 8


Conference Overall RPI
1 Troy 28
1 Louisiana 53
3 South Alabama 36
4 Middle Tennessee State 85
5 Florida International 62
6 New Orleans 121
7 Arkansas State 135
8 Western Kentucky 192
9 Arkansas-Little Rock 208

[CAJUNJUDO]

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Conference RPI = 8


Conference Overall RPI
1 Troy 28
1 Louisiana 53
3 South Alabama 36
4 Middle Tennessee State 85
5 Florida International 62
6 New Orleans 121
7 Arkansas State 135
8 Western Kentucky 192
9 Arkansas-Little Rock 208

FAU 109....having a down year
ULM 224....hopefully they improve

[CajunNation]

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hopefully we will be in another conference in a few years

[El Sidonio]

in regards to conferences, i'd love to see us stay sunbelt and the conference improve through steady membership, BUT, i wouldn't blame us for jumping ship to another conference if the deal was good enough. But, that's a whole nother post.

In regards to RPI, forgive me for forgetting some of the teams, it's monday.

Also, does RPI have ANY bearing on whether or not a team hosts a regional?

God Bless

GEAUX UL!

[El Sidonio]

one more question: how accurate can RPI really be, when we beat troy 2 of 3 and are lower RPI than them? I guess I just need to understand how RPI is calculated.

God Bless

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!

[TuffGuy84]

one more question: how accurate can RPI really be, when we beat troy 2 of 3 and are lower RPI than them? I guess I just need to understand how RPI is calculated.

God Bless

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!

Instances like this happen all the time. For instance, South Al beat us 2 out of 3, Troy swept South Al, and we took 2 of 3 from Troy. Not to mention, it takes into account for home an away. A home loss is worse than a road loss. In fact, if 2 teams are evenly matched, it is expected that the home team wins 2/3. thats why its important to win or sweep MT this weeken since we're on the road against a team with an RPI of 85 (aprx.)

Tuffguy

[BirdofParadise]

one more question: how accurate can RPI really be, when we beat troy 2 of 3 and are lower RPI than them? I guess I just need to understand how RPI is calculated.

God Bless

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!

the RPI formula is your won-loss record (25%), your opponents won-loss record (50%) and your opponents opponents won loss record (25%)

Both USA and Troy played stronger schedules, hence the difference in the RPI.

[CajunProud]

the RPI formula is your won-loss record (25%), your opponents won-loss record (50%) and your opponents opponents won loss record (25%)

Both USA and Troy played stronger schedules, hence the difference in the RPI.

Why are we not playing a stronger schedule? Why to do we continually play the Southland teams just about every non conference game (this is sarcasm, but you get my point)?

If you will recall, we had this conversation on a different thread last week after we lost the Northwestern game, and at that time I said the Northwestern loss could potentially come back to bite us. We don't know yet if that will come to pass. However, if we take care of business from here on out, I don't think we will have to worry about that.

My point is though, why put ourselves in that position every year by playing such a soft non-conference schedule? I am guessing that it has something to do with budgetary constraints, but you can't tell me that La. Tech has more money than we do for their baseball program and yet they have played Arkansas in a 3 game sereies, at Arkansas; Southern Miss once; and Mississippi State twice.

Please explain. Thanks.

[Clutch0364]

Why are we not playing a stronger schedule? Why to do we continually play the Southland teams just about every non conference game (this is sarcasm, but you get my point)?

If you will recall, we had this conversation on a different thread last week after we lost the Northwestern game, and at that time I said the Northwestern loss could potentially come back to bite us. We don't know yet if that will come to pass. However, if we take care of business from here on out, I don't think we will have to worry about that.

My point is though, why put ourselves in that position every year by playing such a soft non-conference schedule? I am guessing that it has something to do with budgetary constraints, but you can't tell me that La. Tech has more money than we do for their baseball program and yet they have played Arkansas in a 3 game sereies, at Arkansas; Southern Miss once; and Mississippi State twice.

Please explain. Thanks.

BOP would be better to asnwer this than me but I believe ROBE doesn't want to sacrifice home games. Things will get better however next year I believe we plya Tulane and in 2008 we play LSU, both games will help our strength of schedule.

[BirdofParadise]

BOP would be better to asnwer this than me but I believe ROBE doesn't want to sacrifice home games. Things will get better however next year I believe we plya Tulane and in 2008 we play LSU, both games will help our strength of schedule.

It's a combination of things.

In my opinion, value it or not, the problem isn't playing the Southland. Geography dictates your out of conference schedule in mid week games. Our geography dictates Northwestern, Southeastern, Nicholls, McNeese and Lamar. Normally, playing Northwestern multiple times would be an RPI boost. This year, unfortunately, it isn't. BUT Northwestern swept Lamar over the weekend which moved their RPI to a point where those losses will not be considered bad losses by the committee. Having Tulane on the schedule will help next year as will playing Houston in a non conference game midweek.

You have to understand that, unlike basketball, baseball schedules are usually done a couple of years in advance. In the past, the Sun Belt was frequently a top 5 league. We started to be a victim of our own success with great crowds and therefore, wanted to play more home games (remember that our program gets no money from the University other than scholarships and coaches salaries...and playing at home helps pay the bills.)

We scheduled northeast and Big Ten teams at home for the homegames because they don't require a return visit. At the same time, the Sun Belt got weaker and SOS started to hurt us.

La. Tech played Arkansas in a weekend series. They are much closer geographically to Fayetteville and Starkville than we are.

We will always continue to play the Southland, because geography dictates it in midweek.

But with 30 conference games beginning next year, and the Sun Belt starting to rebound, that will help SOS. Troy has been a great addition to the league, UNO is getting better and FAU will be a good addition as well.

In the case of Troy and their SOS, five games against Auburn and Alabama help the cause. In USA's case, their baseball program is fully funded and they hosted two tournaments and were able to bring in some really good teams to play.

Robe has recognized that SOS needs to improve and we are playing three at Southern MIss next year (with a return visit in 08), with Tulane at Zephyr and Houston on the road.

It'll all work out.