Season long look at UL's trek through the Baseball RPI rankings

[J-Town Cajun]

_ Incidentally, we ran the RPI today using the basketball formula. The Cajuns came out with an RPI of 6. This is due to the number of road games (and road wins) the Cajuns have. Of course, if baseball ever did adopt a similar formula, the weightings for home and road games would be different than those used in basketball.

Brian _

Thanks for that information, I love stats useful or not.
Cajuns # 6 in the country according to the basketball RPI, awesome. No really, I believe baseball should weight home/away games some but of course not as much as basketball.

As Jay has said and I truely believe, that winning a road game in basketball is the hardest obstacle in sports. I read some where, a gambling website, that college basketball wins 80% of their games at home.

[GoneGolfin]

Thanks for that information, I love stats useful or not.
Cajuns # 6 in the country according to the basketball RPI, awesome. No really, I believe baseball should weight home/away games some but of course not as much as basketball.

As Jay has said and I truely believe, that winning a road game in basketball is the hardest obstacle in sports. I read some where, a gambling website, that college basketball wins 80% of their games at home.

Here is the NCAA Baseball RPI using the Basketball Formula

-r RPI Team
1 0.63719 Vanderbilt
2 0.635318 Rice
3 0.631669 South Carolina
4 0.610223 Virginia
5 0.60956 Wichita State
6 0.605878 Louisiana-Lafayette
7 0.605636 Arkansas
8 0.605089 Texas A&M
9 0.604514 Arizona State
10 0.603184 Long Beach State
11 0.601958 Texas
12 0.601262 Mississippi State
13 0.599165 Mississippi
14 0.597671 San Diego
15 0.597553 Coastal Carolina
16 0.597118 Florida State
17 0.595661 North Carolina
18 0.594581 Oklahoma
19 0.593745 Arizona
20 0.590524 Minnesota
21 0.588937 Oregon State
22 0.588012 Michigan
23 0.587629 Cal State Fullerton
24 0.587409 Missouri
25 0.58735 Nebraska
26 0.587042 UC Irvine
27 0.586484 Pepperdine
28 0.583933 East Carolina
29 0.581736 Western Carolina
30 0.5805 North Carolina State
31 0.580432 College of Charleston
32 0.577015 Kansas State
33 0.576494 Clemson
34 0.575972 Stetson
35 0.573201 Creighton
36 0.571404 Louisville
37 0.569918 Rutgers
38 0.569508 Memphis
39 0.569361 Miami Florida
40 0.569091 Central Michigan
41 0.568827 Southern California
42 0.567898 Florida
43 0.567762 Evansville
44 0.567434 Troy
45 0.564727 Texas Christian
46 0.564458 Louisiana State
47 0.563369 Eastern Michigan
48 0.560785 Southern Mississippi
49 0.559594 Georgia Tech
50 0.558868 Boston College
51 0.558834 Houston
52 0.55836 Oral Roberts
53 0.557504 UCLA
54 0.555269 Wake Forest
55 0.555136 Virginia Tech
56 0.554672 Auburn
57 0.554169 Oklahoma State
58 0.548891 Southern Illinois
59 0.547145 Middle Tennessee State
60 0.546921 North Carolina-Charlotte
61 0.546506 South Florida
62 0.54451 High Point
63 0.54431 Lafayette
64 0.54392 UC Riverside
65 0.54383 Baylor
66 0.543341 Texas State
67 0.543063 Virginia Military
68 0.542505 Kentucky
69 0.542206 Duke
70 0.540472 Pittsburgh
71 0.538513 Gonzaga
72 0.538037 Iowa
73 0.537972 Texas-San Antonio
74 0.537801 Tulane
75 0.53502 Washington State
76 0.532614 Northern Illinois
77 0.53242 Brigham Young
78 0.532303 Dallas Baptist
79 0.531685 Louisiana-Monroe
80 0.531538 Southeastern Louisiana
81 0.531117 St John's
82 0.530647 Richmond
83 0.530147 Jacksonville State
84 0.530096 Illinois State
85 0.529209 Purdue
86 0.529159 Xavier
87 0.528845 Cal Poly
88 0.528568 Kansas
89 0.528404 Penn State
90 0.528102 Santa Clara
91 0.527817 Florida Atlantic
92 0.527782 Michigan State
93 0.527509 Texas Tech
94 0.527312 Stanford
95 0.527301 New Orleans
96 0.525711 Northeastern
97 0.524231 Miami Ohio
98 0.522095 Stephen F. Austin
99 0.521227 Kennesaw State
100 0.520505 Mercer
101 0.519997 Ohio State
102 0.519815 The Citadel
103 0.519603 California
104 0.519289 Monmouth
105 0.519004 Maryland
106 0.518647 Central Connecticut State
107 0.517225 Lipscomb
108 0.517209 Sam Houston State
109 0.516304 Connecticut
110 0.516131 Manhattan
111 0.515923 Missouri State
112 0.515659 Washington
113 0.515545 San Diego State
114 0.514418 Illinois-Chicago
115 0.513368 Liberty
116 0.512938 Alabama
117 0.51261 Fresno State
118 0.512519 Virginia Commonwealth
119 0.512512 Tennessee
120 0.512457 Georgia Southern
121 0.512426 Indiana State
122 0.511812 Central Florida
123 0.511341 East Tennessee State
124 0.51103 San Francisco
125 0.510029 Lamar
126 0.50957 Austin Peay State
127 0.509324 Elon
128 0.509258 Western Kentucky
129 0.509205 Bradley
130 0.508026 Louisiana Tech
131 0.507691 William and Mary
132 0.506629 Nevada-Las Vegas
133 0.506164 Winthrop
134 0.505507 North Carolina-Wilmington
135 0.505394 North Carolina-Greensboro
136 0.504503 Northwestern State
137 0.504022 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
138 0.503543 Seton Hall
139 0.502807 Appalachian State
140 0.502214 Jacksonville
141 0.501619 UC Santa Barbara
142 0.501333 Kent State
143 0.501127 Old Dominion
144 0.500815 Nevada
145 0.500222 Belmont
146 0.500169 South Dakota State
147 0.500021 South Alabama
148 0.49973 Villanova
149 0.499295 Loyola Marymount
150 0.498566 Northern Iowa
151 0.49827 Samford
152 0.498024 North Carolina-Asheville
153 0.496221 Army
154 0.495938 LeMoyne
155 0.495766 Mount St Mary's
156 0.493583 Southeast Missouri State
157 0.493234 George Mason
158 0.493153 Georgia State
159 0.492508 Notre Dame
160 0.492383 West Virginia
161 0.492046 Bethune-Cookman
162 0.491573 Binghamton
163 0.491235 Stony Brook
164 0.490765 Georgia
165 0.490578 Akron
166 0.49029 Illinois
167 0.490093 Towson
168 0.489092 Portland
169 0.48891 New Mexico
170 0.488687 North Florida
171 0.485869 James Madison
172 0.485787 Arkansas State
173 0.485727 Alabama-Birmingham
174 0.484695 Brown
175 0.482991 Quinnipiac
176 0.482281 Hawaii
177 0.481988 Ball State
178 0.479718 Eastern Illinois
179 0.479547 Navy
180 0.478874 Fordham
181 0.478511 McNeese State
182 0.477465 Maine
183 0.477112 Murray State
184 0.476243 Albany
185 0.474525 Cal State Northridge
186 0.473653 Florida International
187 0.473278 Rhode Island
188 0.473228 Wofford
189 0.472991 Longwood
190 0.472514 Harvard
191 0.47103 UC Davis
192 0.470303 Delaware
193 0.468995 Central Arkansas
194 0.468843 San Jose State
195 0.468739 George Washington
196 0.468639 Utah
197 0.468552 Cincinnati
198 0.468142 Arkansas-Little Rock
199 0.468123 Wright State
200 0.46811 North Carolina A&T
201 0.466677 Furman
202 0.466022 Princeton
203 0.46588 Gardner-Webb
204 0.465558 Western Illinois
205 0.465491 Columbia
206 0.463068 Hartford
207 0.462264 Duquesne
208 0.462075 Rider
209 0.462039 Marshall
210 0.459443 Wisconsin-Milwaukee
211 0.458886 Vermont
212 0.45778 Texas-Arlington
213 0.456064 Radford
214 0.455928 Indiana
215 0.455266 St Mary's
216 0.455011 Toledo
217 0.453843 Marist
218 0.45366 Bucknell
219 0.453583 New York Tech
220 0.452195 Dayton
221 0.45028 Savannah State
222 0.450043 Sacred Heart
223 0.449829 Campbell
224 0.44969 Northern Colorado
225 0.449431 St Louis
226 0.448634 Tennessee Tech
227 0.447044 Utah Valley State
228 0.446764 Temple
229 0.446397 Texas-Pan American
230 0.445182 Youngstown State
231 0.444225 New Mexico State
232 0.443997 Pennsylvania
233 0.442981 Hofstra
234 0.441786 Bowling Green State
235 0.440786 Western Michigan
236 0.439612 Davidson
237 0.438427 Prairie View A&M
238 0.435988 Cal State Sacramento
239 0.435113 Holy Cross
240 0.434235 St Bonaventure
241 0.433726 Cornell
242 0.43329 Charleston Southern
243 0.433276 Norfolk State
244 0.433184 Pacific
245 0.43253 St Peter's
246 0.43216 Cleveland State
247 0.432128 Georgetown
248 0.431063 Wagner
249 0.429855 Northwestern
250 0.429633 Massachusetts
251 0.427848 Valparaiso
252 0.427277 Oakland
253 0.426387 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
254 0.426106 Yale
255 0.425815 Niagara
256 0.425705 Siena
257 0.423149 Iona
258 0.421011 Fairleigh Dickinson
259 0.417948 LaSalle
260 0.417582 North Dakota State
261 0.416856 Southern
262 0.41562 Mississippi Valley State
263 0.410815 Fairfield
264 0.40957 Texas Southern
265 0.409416 Canisius
266 0.408193 Lehigh
267 0.407656 Nicholls State
268 0.405513 New Jersey Tech
269 0.403883 Jackson State
270 0.403772 Long Island
271 0.403443 Tennessee-Martin
272 0.400066 Eastern Kentucky
273 0.399052 Delaware State
274 0.391189 Southern Utah
275 0.389657 Butler
276 0.387832 Grambling State
277 0.387053 Centenary
278 0.386461 Ohio
279 0.385609 Buffalo
280 0.383605 Florida A&M
281 0.383123 St Joseph's
282 0.376341 Dartmouth
283 0.365297 Alcorn State
284 0.362044 Hawaii-Hilo
285 0.361421 Air Force
286 0.361117 IUPU-Fort Wayne
287 0.351623 Chicago State
288 0.349985 Maryland-Baltimore County
289 0.348455 Morehead State
290 0.342761 Coppin State
291 0.340349 Maryland-Eastern Shore
292 0.338151 Alabama State
293 0.313895 Alabama A&M

Brian

[NewsCopy]

UL's baseball team moved into another ranking Wednesday, but this one was a lot more important than any of the national polls. The Ragin' Cajun squad was ranked 19th in an historic first public release of the NCAA's Ratings Percentage Index, one of the primary tools used by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee to select and seed teams for the NCAA Tournament. The RPI release, approved by the committee in February 2006, will be available each Wednesday the index is distributed to committee members through May 30, two days after the NCAA field is announced. The NCAA released its RPI in men's and women's basketball last winter and will release complete RPI listings, indexing each team that sponsors the sport in all sports where the index is used by the respective committees effective this academic year. The NCAA did not release its RPI percentages and does not release its formula for deriving the RPI, but simulations done by outside agencies have been available for several sports. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[GoneGolfin]

Just copying the below from a previous thread ...

The NCAA made some mistakes with the RPI published today. Particularly with the classification of "neutral" games. Texas played eight games earlier in the season at Round Rock's stadium because Disch-Falk was being refurbished. These eight games were classified as neutral site games. Next week's report will be corrected. However, as a result, San Diego will be awarded two games worth of Top 25 RPI bonus points since it defeated Texas twice in the three game series held in early February. Thus, if the report were correct this week, the Cajuns would be at #20 instead of #19.

Brian

[raoul]

Gee----It looks like the Advocate didn't pick up on the published RPI. Wonder why.

[GoneGolfin]

Just copying the below from a previous thread ...

The NCAA made some mistakes with the RPI published today. Particularly with the classification of "neutral" games. Texas played eight games earlier in the season at Round Rock's stadium because Disch-Falk was being refurbished. These eight games were classified as neutral site games. Next week's report will be corrected. However, as a result, San Diego will be awarded two games worth of Top 25 RPI bonus points since it defeated Texas twice in the three game series held in early February. Thus, if the report were correct this week, the Cajuns would be at #20 instead of #19.

Brian

The SEBaseball RPI Report from this morning has the Cajuns at #20, which is where I believe the NCAA RPI would have them after fixing the error. The Cajuns are just behind Oklahoma and San Diego.

Brian

[NewsCopy]

The city of Lafayette's most successful high school girls' coach, a former local coach now serving as an assistant at an SEC school, a recently-resigned Conference USA head coach and UL's current assistant have interviewed or will interview for the Ragin' Cajuns' vacant women's basketball position. UL interim athletic director David Walker interviewed Teurlings Cath-olic girls' coach Garry Brodhead, former Opelousas Catholic coach and current Mississippi State assistant Errol Rogers and current Cajun assistant James "Wooly" Hatchell this week, according to those candidates or sources close to them. Gail Striegler, who resigned on March 8 after eight years as head coach at Central Florida, is scheduled to be interviewed either today or Monday. Walker said he planned to conduct a total of six interviews, four of them in person and two by telephone. Walker would not divulge names of any interviewed candidates. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[RaginDave]

_ lciitsh:
Just a thought from a former U L Head coach. Coach James Hatchell would be an outstanding Head Coach at the University of Louisiana. I'm going to tell you why and this is nothing against the other people who have applied.

1. Coach Hatchell is already there. 2. Coach Hatchell just received 3 verbal commitments from kids we had recruited all year (just in this last week). Now lets think this through, how hard do you people think it is to get an 18-19 year old kid to commit to a school where ther is no Head Coach in place. you think that's easy ? It's hard enough to get them when you recruited them the whole year. LET'S GIVE HIM THE CREDIT. Coach Hatchell has done the job of the Head Coach. Just so everybody knows, the hardest part of the job there was the recruiting of good players.

The current players already know him and the system would not change that much. A new coach comes in and changes everything. Not sure that is what's best for this group.

Coach Hatchell has 2 more big time recruits coming in there this weekend to visit. If you see them out in the community go up and make them feel welcomed. Could be a slam dunk as you like to say on this site.
I'll leave you with this too, let's say that Coach Hatchell signs two more players this weekend. Coach Hatchell would have now signed 5 out of the 6 that we targeted for the late signing period (with no help). DO YOU THINK THAT HE WOULD DESERVE THE JOB AT THAT POINT ? This is a man who has not been promised anything from anybody. This is a man who is doing his job for the University of Louisiana because he believes that good things happen to good people. The man should be rewarded for what he has done and what he will continue to do in the future for the Ragin Cajun Family. Hope you will support him if you get the chance, He is a man of integrity.
Last but not least, I know in my heart that David Walker will do the right thing for the program. Good Luck, I will be watching and the Cajuns will always hold a special place in Meredith's and my heart.
HEADBEARCAT1 _

Thank you Coach and we will do the same for you. I know I for one, will be following the Bearcats to see how you grow there program as you did ours. You and your family are Class A in my book. I hope the best for you and maybe just maybe one day, Coach Hall's Bearcats will come to Lafayette to play Coach Hatchell's Cajuns in Lafayette. Or better yet maybe we will meet you guys in the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

Good luck and keep in touch with us Cajuns. Just always remember where you got your first HC shot. Acadiana and Cajun people will never forget you.

[GoneGolfin]

The Cajun RPI rating ticked up just a bit, helped by several opponents last night. The Cajuns moved from .5976 to .5988 (not much at all). But Oklahoma dropped .0004, East Carolina lost to Southern Mississippi (one of our opponents), and Minnesota lost to Illinois (one of our opponents). Thus the Cajuns passes those three and moved from the #20 position to #17.

By itself, a win over Arkansas State (aRPI 154, .4960) would have been neutral at best with the Cajuns at #20 with a .5976. It probably would have dropped the Cajuns some. But because of what our opponents were able to do (and against teams rated just above the Cajuns), the Cajuns vaulted three positions.

Note that Troy has moved from 37 to 34.

From SEBaseball.com

Rank Rating Team RPI Rank RPI
1 0.6372 Vanderbilt 1 0.6372
2 0.6368 Rice 2 0.6350
3 0.6255 South Carolina 3 0.6231
4 0.6221 Texas 4 0.6197
5 0.6206 Texas A&M 5 0.6182
6 0.6189 Mississippi State 6 0.6171
7 0.6185 Long Beach State 12 0.6047
8 0.6173 Arkansas 8 0.6137
9 0.6132 North Carolina 7 0.6144
10 0.6113 Mississippi 9 0.6089
11 0.6104 Florida State 10 0.6086
12 0.6074 Arizona State 11 0.6056
13 0.6062 Coastal Carolina 14 0.6026
14 0.6056 Wichita State 15 0.6014
15 0.6029 Virginia 13 0.6029
16 0.5998 San Diego 21 0.5902
17 0.5988 Louisiana-Lafayette 18 0.5934
18 0.5984 Oklahoma 16 0.5984
19 0.5960 East Carolina 17 0.5972
20 0.5942 North Carolina State 22 0.5894
21 0.5933 Minnesota 19 0.5915
22 0.5927 UC Irvine 30 0.5849
23 0.5925 Nebraska 24 0.5883
24 0.5913 Kansas State 23 0.5889
25 0.5912 Clemson 20 0.5912
26 0.5887 Pepperdine 26 0.5863
27 0.5884 Cal State Fullerton 31 0.5848
28 0.5882 College of Charleston 27 0.5858
29 0.5882 Arizona 25 0.5864
30 0.5854 Stetson 28 0.5854
31 0.5853 Florida 36 0.5811
32 0.5852 Missouri 29 0.5852
33 0.5843 Michigan 33 0.5819
34 0.5826 Troy 35 0.5814
35 0.5825 Oregon State 32 0.5825
36 0.5822 Miami Florida 34 0.5816
37 0.5770 Wake Forest 39 0.5710
38 0.5764 Southern Mississippi 37 0.5746
39 0.5748 Louisiana State 38 0.5730
40 0.5729 Texas Christian 42 0.5687
41 0.5710 Western Carolina 43 0.5680
42 0.5708 Baylor 40 0.5708
43 0.5702 Auburn 41 0.5702
44 0.5696 Memphis 46 0.5672
45 0.5693 Louisville 45 0.5675
46 0.5677 South Florida 44 0.5677
47 0.5664 Georgia Tech 47 0.5664
48 0.5645 Creighton 50 0.5609
49 0.5644 Southern California 51 0.5608
50 0.5627 Houston 49 0.5627

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

In this morning's RPI calculations, the Cajuns increased their Adjusted RPI rating .0007, even less than after Friday's game. This is for all practical purposes a wash. The Cajuns remain ranked at #17 in the Adjusted RPI. The Base RPI increased from .0007 as well, but the Cajuns increased their ranking from 17 to 16 here. The Cajuns passed East Carolina in Base RPI after the Pirates lost again to USM. This is the first time since before the USM series that the Cajuns have had a Base RPI ranking higher than their Adjusted RPI ranking. However, their Adjusted RPI rating is still higher than their Base RPI Rating (.5995 vs. .5941). This is obvious since the Cajuns have not been assessed any penalties (losses against bottom tier teams/non Div. I losses, too many scheduled games against non Div. I teams, etc.).

South Alabama's win over Florida Atlantic moved the Jaguars back into the Base RPI Top 100 (#98). This is significant because the Cajuns' Base RPI Top 100 record is now 17-9 vs. 14-9. Western Kentucky is just on the edge at 101, Louisiana Tech at 112, and Florida International at 122.