Baseball Rankings - 3/3

[wcd35]

First one is out. I will update as they come out

Perfect Game - #14 (prev #24) http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/...x?article=9513
Collegiate Baseball - #11 (prev #14) http://baseballnews.com/polls/ncaa-d...i-poll-3-3-14/
Baseball America - #7 (prev #10) http://www.baseballamerica.com/colle...op-25-march-3/
USA Today Coaches - #13 (prev #24) http://espn.go.com/college-sports/ra...ortId/10031000
NCBWA -#15 (prev #20) http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/n...oll140303.html

[Cajun_RH]

I'll take that

[DocCajun]

Hell yea

[cajunhawk]

Perfect game giving us mad respect...booyahkasha!!!

[campo118]

Respeckkk

[wcd35]

First single digit ranking is out. #7 in Baseball America

[angeleast]

baseball will be baseball and all teams will drop one or two along the way .... I figured after getting up for them _____es in lsu and the first 2 bama games we were due for a reality check. that said, we have a damn good team and the long season will bear much fruit.. GEAuX CAJUNS

[scotto_25]

43rd in RPI per http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2014/rpi

[ulforlife]

43rd in RPI per http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2014/rpi

I don't know why they even post their RPI this early in the season

[CrappDaddy]

Someone please fill me in, always confused on this. RPI is more of a strength of schedule rating or an actual rating using a variety of data?

[scotto_25]

Based on teams win/losses and their strength of schedule
It's weighted at different percentages for your win/losses and your opponents win/losses with more points given for road wins...

I'm sure a few others may be more knowledgeable on the subject..

[wcd35]

Someone please fill me in, always confused on this. RPI is more of a strength of schedule rating or an actual rating using a variety of data?

It's pretty simple. Basically, its worthless until enough teams play each other.

RPI = (WP * 0.25) + (OWP * 0.50) + (OOWP * 0.25)

Where WP is Winning Percentage, OWP is Opponents' Winning Percentage and OOWP is Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage.

"RPI formula values each road victory as 1.3 instead of 1.0. Each home win will be valued at 0.7 instead of 1.0. Conversely, each home loss will count 1.3 against a team’s RPI and each road loss will count 0.7 against a team’s RPI. Neutral-site games will retain the same value of 1.0."