Baseball rpi

[ZoomZoom]

Why do you think they knew this was an option (would not affect your RPI unless you lose)? Nobody on this board knew.

They may know now.

Brian

You don't risk a non d-1 loss. Nobody could have predicted the peacocks were going to be winless.

Any given day anyone can win a game they shouldn't. Which applies to St. Peter's.

[GoneGolfin]

You don't risk a non d-1 loss. Nobody could have predicted the peacocks were going to be winless.

Any given day anyone can win a game they shouldn't. Which applies to St. Peter's.

No ... the penalty of a loss to a non-D1 is just a scratch. In fact ... small relative to the loss incurred by sweeping a few teams on our schedule.

Saint Peter's does not need to be anywhere near winless to have a significant negative impact. If they would have won eight games (8-16), their negative impact on the Cajuns' would be worse than if the Cajuns had dropped one of three games to a non-D1 team. And it is not like Saint Peter's was expected to win 33% of their games.

Brian

[Cajun90]

You don't risk a non d-1 loss. Nobody could have predicted the peacocks were going to be winless.

Any given day anyone can win a game they shouldn't. Which applies to St. Peter's.

Anybody could have looked at their history and predicted there was an extremely high chance that St. Peters was not going to have a good record and three games against them would have a substantial negative effect on our RPI.

[cajundiehard]

Why do you think they knew this was an option (would not affect your RPI unless you lose)? Nobody on this board knew.

They may know now.

Brian

Would love to see you get a sit down meeting with Coach Bab after this year is done....

[Rougarou]

Overnight Cajun's RPI jumped to 49 per d1baseball.com.

https://d1baseball.com/team/ulala/

[Dad04]

Would love to see you get a sit down meeting with Coach Bab after this year is done....

Live and learn. I seriously doubt this will ever happen again.

[wcd35]

Live and learn. I seriously doubt this will ever happen again.

While they may not do something like this again, I think there's still a fundamental misunderstanding of the system. Bab has mentioned it on the radio before that he looks at the last few years RPI ranking of teams when evaluating who to schedule instead of using the system to your advantage by finding good win percentage teams in mid to weaker conferences.

Just in MAAC (Saint Peter's conference) we could play a Fairfield (153), Marist (144), or Canisius (163). These are teams that are near .500 most years. Canisius especially is a team you can look to bring down as they are usually top of the conference and above .500.

Teams like Southern Miss (Northeastern 149), Florida (William & Mary 117), and even McNeese (tournament with Rhode Island-50 and Stony Brook-207) made out well with their OOC games by playing decent teams from weaker northern conferences for the most part. Rhode Island is at 50 this year so that turns into a top 50 win for McNeese as well.

Most of these teams you wouldn't say, "hey these guys will help our RPI" when you look at their ranking but you look at their typical W/L and can see that they are much better options

[Boomer]

Poor St. Peters. Man Oh Man. Why didn't we play non-D1? Actually that would be a good question for the S'note with Bab next week... Losing again to Seton Hall - 0-8 in the 7th.

Wish everyone could drop a team or series for RPI calculation purposes - just one. LOL.

......too bad a team couldn't exclude one series in the rankings!!!

[Boomer]

Man talk about good baseball around us....Houston, McN, LTUR, S'East, Tulane, LSU, S Miss, State, and usually Rice and OM!!! And UNO and Nicholls on any given night!!!

[CajunAmos]

Live and learn. I seriously doubt this will ever happen again.

You might be surprised at where Brian makes his information known.

[Dad04]

You might be surprised at where Brian makes his information known.

Bab knows St. Peters is killing us. Surprise me please.

[Dad04]

While they may not do something like this again, I think there's still a fundamental misunderstanding of the system. Bab has mentioned it on the radio before that he looks at the last few years RPI ranking of teams when evaluating who to schedule instead of using the system to your advantage by finding good win percentage teams in mid to weaker conferences.

Just in MAAC (Saint Peter's conference) we could play a Fairfield (153), Marist (144), or Canisius (163). These are teams that are near .500 most years. Canisius especially is a team you can look to bring down as they are usually top of the conference and above .500.

Teams like Southern Miss (Northeastern 149), Florida (William & Mary 117), and even McNeese (tournament with Rhode Island-50 and Stony Brook-207) made out well with their OOC games by playing decent teams from weaker northern conferences for the most part. Rhode Island is at 50 this year so that turns into a top 50 win for McNeese as well.

Most of these teams you wouldn't say, "hey these guys will help our RPI" when you look at their ranking but you look at their typical W/L and can see that they are much better options

We tend to dominate these northern teams whenever we do play them.