NCAA Baseball Regional Selection Show

[CajunVic]

Moody and Tate will be well rested . . .

[IberiaCajun]

Exactly what I had laid out as the reason they should not be included. The 18-12 record vs. the Top 100 was just an excuse for prognosticators to select them to the field ... but on deeper inspection was fool's gold.

Brian

Brian, thank you for your analysis. You help this casual fan understand the convoluted process a little better. Thanks for your analysis in the other thread.

[GoneGolfin]

Brian, thank you for your analysis. You help this casual fan understand the convoluted process a little better. Thanks for your analysis in the other thread.

You are quite welcome. It has been fun and finished with a great outcome.

Brian

[Cajunsmike]

Yes. It is confusing the way they present it ... But Arizona was the very last team selected to the field. Louisiana was second to last ... followed by Oklahoma and Troy. So ...

#61 Troy
#62 Oklahoma
#63 Louisiana
#64 Arizona

Meanwhile ... Arizona State was the first team left out ... followed by Kansas State, Kent State, and UC Irvine. So, I applaud UC Irvine for seeing through the UC Irvine resume. Neither D1 Baseball nor Baseball America clued into this (let's see if they figure it out in the post-analysis). In fact, every projection I saw had UC Irvine in the field.

#65 Arizona State
#66 Kansas State
#67 Kent State (similar resume to UC Irvine re: Top 50 ... not enough games vs. Top 100 ... but a conference champion)
#68 UC Irvine

Brian

I was critical of our schedule for having too many midweek home games. We went 1 and 4 in midweek road games but the one win over LSU turned out to be huge. Turns out that being so successful in those midweek home games helped us. Had we lost even one of those vs the SWAC and SLC teams we would be starting vacation now. Whenever you get to play in June your season was successful. Minimizes the time that you start getting antsy for football.

[CajunVic]

You are quite welcome. It has been fun and finished with a great outcome.

Brian

Especially when you get us in . . .

[GoneGolfin]

Especially when you get us in . . .

LOL.

Brian

[Lej0285]

Deggs takes some heat on this board including from me this year. I have to tip my cap to him that’s two straight regional appearances re establishing our program where we should be. Congrats coach on the late run this year and let’s go win the damn thing in Miami. Looking at Miami they are good no doubt but they got swept by wake forest and Virginia this year. I like our chances if we can beat Texas first game no easy task.

[Turbine]

Finally folks are beginning to clue in about how bad of a measurement system that is the RPI. It was time to replace it when it was first put in place.

Brian

Have you conceived of a top to bottom measuring stick that can't be gamed?

[Cajunsmike]

You are quite welcome. It has been fun and finished with a great outcome.

Brian

If RPI is going to be continue to be used so heavily, perhaps a simple tweak could improve it. Change the criteria to be 35 percent your record, 33 percent your opponents record and 32 percent the record of the opponents of your opponents. Your results should always be the driving factor of how you are analyzed. That is not the case with the current 25/50/25 formula. I doubt the major schools will ever let that happen however as the current system is to their advantage. Brian, how difficult would it be to recalculate the RPI of tournament teams with my suggestion and then compare it to the current output ?

[Dad04]

Kyle Peterson said the RPI system needs scrapping right now. Not sure what replaces though. John Cohen stated a more regionally fair system needed to be used.