Week 6 softball rpi

[CajunAmos]

The record could be worse as you said but the RPI would still be higher.

Since you're playing with LA Cajuns hypotheticals... You could sub-in the best softball team that has ever existed anywhere, (keeping UL's locked in schedule) and their RPI would not be substantially better than Louisiana's.

Point being, RPI is a brain dead way of measuring quality.

But much better than any opinion method I've ever seen used by selection committee's.

[CajunAmos]

Would take more than “a signature win”. Multiples more likely.

We don’t play any needle movers the rest of the year. We’re 20th, JMU is higher, they’ll be the token non P-5 regional host. Baton Rouge here we come. Ugh.

Team sheets tell the story. Who worth a flip have we’ve beaten? Nobody.

We’ll have a 1-2 combo pitching next year. Need a more challenging OOC schedule with wins.

Don't think we're going to BR this year.

[ZoomZoom]

Troy is right there and may break into the top 50 if they keep winning. If that happens then that's 3 more wins against a top 50 program. It would also help if we played them twice in the conference tournament.

Troy has the same issue the Cajuns have...except they have a single game at Florida State Wednesday. USA and Texas State are not needle movers. We all have to be Troy fans Wednesday.

FWIW, Troy has been run ruled by Alabama, South Carolina, State and three times by UL.

[ragin50]

Through Games of April 21, 2019
Generated: Monday 04/22/19 09:04 AM

--- Division I Only

Rank Name Conf W-L Road Neut Home Non-Div I
20 Louisiana Sun Belt 42-4-0 17-2-0 3-1-0 22-1-0 0-0-0
53 Troy Sun Belt 34-15-0 8-6-0 11-3-0 15-6-0 0-0-0
63 Texas State Sun Belt 25-19-0 12-8-0 6-3-0 7-8-0 0-0-0
71 UT Arlington Sun Belt 24-23-0 3-13-0 6-5-0 15-5-0 0-0-0
89 Appalachian State Sun Belt 29-16-0 14-7-0 6-3-0 9-6-0 0-0-0
102 Coastal Carolina Sun Belt 32-15-0 6-8-0 3-0-0 23-7-0 0-0-0
149 South Alabama Sun Belt 15-28-0 5-10-0 2-5-0 8-13-0 0-0-0
160 Georgia Southern Sun Belt 19-24-0 2-6-0 2-3-0 15-15-0 0-0-0
199 Georgia State Sun Belt 7-40-0 1-19-0 1-9-0 5-12-0 0-0-0
225 ULM Sun Belt 9-36-0 3-15-0 3-11-0 3-10-0 0-0-0

Should we pray for rain in Moanroe in a couple of weeks?

[AstroCajun]

Should we pray for rain in Moanroe in a couple of weeks?

"Rain out? I can get us a rain out. ... Hundred bucks says I can get us a rain out for tomorrow."

[Turbine]

But much better than any opinion method I've ever seen used by selection committee's.

You are right. The year UL had the #11 RPI they still found a way to bump the Cajuns down a notch.

This was with Louisiana's AD at the head of the proverbial table.

[GeauxLouisiana]

You are right. The year UL had the #11 RPI they still found a way to bump the Cajuns down a notch.

This was with Louisiana's AD at the head of the proverbial table.

What year was that turbine?

[RaginScotsman]

What year was that turbine?

We were 13 and Auburn was 4 in 2015. Should have won that thing too. It was an epic meltdown in the circle in game 1 that set the tone. We lost 12-11 in 8 innings after blowing a big lead late.

Not sure if that was what Turbine was talking about, but that Super regional came to mind.

[Turbine]

What year was that turbine?

If I recall it was 2012, Scott Farmers last year on the committee, the year he served as head of the selection committee.

If I recall correctly.

[RaginScotsman]

If I recall it was 2012, Scott Farmers last year on the committee, the year he served as head of the selection committee.

If I recall correctly.

I think that was the year we went to Tempe for a super. Arizona State must have been 2 or 3. Shut them out the first game and then lost back to back. To give you an idea of how good the Cal wins earlier this season would have been if it were 2012, they were the #1 overall seed that year.

[GeauxLouisiana]

If I recall it was 2012, Scott Farmers last year on the committee, the year he served as head of the selection committee.

If I recall correctly.

We were #12 in the rpi at selection time with a measly 4-0 record against the rpi top 25. Of the teams that jumped us for seeding, they all had more wins against the rpi top 25. We also had the #44 non conference SOS. Dropping 2 spots for seeding wasn’t a bad decision.

Scott being on the committee means nothing.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Scott being on the committee means nothing.

What made Farmer suck was his comments after the bad seeding decision. Something about how he felt fine with the process and our spot. I’ve never heard another AD not lobbying for their teams for better seeding even after the decision.